Hawaiian comedian Frank De Lima told a joke about a Filipino announcer saying somebody needed to move their car, license plate B for Bictory, L for Elephant, Q for Cucumberrrrrrr...
Queuecumber
When I used it everyday I knew it by heart. Now its faded from the forefront of my mind and sometimes it just isn't worth the effort to recall it. If it mattered I would care.
Germans use ČS for "Tschechoslowakei". Yes, really − not only is Č not in the word, it's also not in the German alphabet.
not only is Č not in the word, it's also not in the German alphabet.
Well, it could be... suppose the German alphabet decided it needed Lebensraum and decided to annex the Sudeten alphabet.
To make them really uncomfortable, use your sluttiest code words.
D as in Daddy, M as in Mummy, H as in Harder, P as in Pineapple, that's my safe word, I've never had to use it...
I have a friend who, years later, still brings up when I said "K as In Cat." That poor customer
Just say you're Dutch, where cat translates to kat
Let's see if I still remember:
Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
Delta
Echo
Foxtrot
Golf
Hotel
Indigo
Juno
Kilo
Lima
Mike
November
Oscar
P????
Q????
Romeo
S????
Tango
U????
Vector
W????
X-ray
Y????
Z????
P for Pneumatic
My eternal gratitude to anyone who can find the old Jonathan Katz stand up bit where he was spelling things out ridiculously to a 411 representative. I must have taped over my old VHS with it.
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