ABLE BAKER CHARLIE DOG

[Slow_boat]

There were times when we used to make up our own phonetics for our own use on the air.

Then it all got a bit silly when we would decide amongst ourselves a subject the alphabet would have to be based on, like Food, or Pop singers, or Animals.....

 

[comtech]

foxtrot oscar?

 

[contessa26]

Hi Achilles - Sorry to butt in on your thread - but here's another version of your alphabet that may fill in a few of your blanks/question marks...

A for 'orses (hay for horses)
B for mutton
C forth highlanders
D for ential - or D for mation
E for brick (...?)
F for vescence
G for police (chief of police)
H before beauty (age before beauty)
I for lootin - or I for novello
J for oranges
K for restrauant (cafe or restr...?)
L for leather
M for sis
N for lope
O for the wings of a dove
P for relief
Q for a bus
R for mo
S for me to know and you to find out
T for two
U for missum - or U for me
V for La France (Vive La France)
W for a quid (double-u for a quid?)
X for breakfast (eggs for breakfast)
Y for husband (wife or husband?)
Z for wind (zephyr wind). . .

Contessa 26

(quickly ducks below parapet again...)

 

[LadyInBed]

E for brick - I think it is heave a brick

 

[ningcompoop]

arse!
bollocks!
cocks!
dick!
ephemera! /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
feck!
gonnads!
heck!
itchy!
jugs!
knob!
l...l...l.......
Where's the profanosaurus when you need it? Never mind, time for bed.

 

[fisherman]

Being a sort of jazz musician I always get Oscar, Peterson, and have used it.

 

[Rowana]

ABLE BAKER CHARLIE DOG . . .

. . . .Have you seen my chocolate frog.

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[tillergirl]

When the first radios were invented for the police service, the Home Office who were doing the work near London used two sets for testing purposes. In order to speak between the sets, they allocated the first call signs 1LO (for London) for the base station and 2LO for the remote set. Since it all worked fine, it was logical that the first set at New Scotland Yard had the call sign 3LO or 'ello, ello, ello'!

 

[peterb]

I thought that 2LO was the call sign of the earliest BBC station?

 

[BlueSkyNick]

I know a rugby club version of the alphabet but there is no way I am going to post it on here /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[mcframe]

From rec.humour funny:
Alternative phonetic alphabet

A Are
B Bee
C Cite
D Double-U
E Eye
F Five
G Genre
H Hoe
I I
J Junta
K Knot
L Lye
M Me
N Nine
O Owe
P Pseudonym
Q Queue
R Rap
S Sea
T Tsunami
U Understand?
V Vie
W Why
X Xylophone
Y You
Z Zero


There's another one that begins "A is for Adrbeg, B is for Bowmore, C is for Caol Isla, D is for Drambuie..."

HTH

 

[peterb]

[ QUOTE ]

M for sis
N for lope
O for the wings of a dove
P for relief
Q for a bus
R for mo
S for me to know and you to find out


[/ QUOTE ]

It's a funny thing, I've seen lots of versions of this alphabet; the only letter they seem to all have in common is P. There must be something deep down in the human psyche .....

On a different note, I understand that the alphabet was occasionally used as a code in WWII when it was necessary to send messages requiring immediate action, but which would not suffer if broken in an hour or so.

 

[landaftaf]

yawn ........ mmmmmm









how effing interesting (not) /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[tillergirl]

Umm - look I know it wasn't the funniest joke in the world....... Actually I think you are right and that the joke was that 1LO was something in Government, 2LO was the BBC and 3LO was New Scotland Yard. But actually New Scotland Yard is M2MP. When I used to hear it I always wondered who M was who kept calling 'MP'

Which reminds me for some reason of my wife who fell asleep in the car just as we started on the German Autobanns and when she woke up three hours later and looked out at the motorway exit we were passing, she said, "haven't we passed Ausgang yet?"

 

[Clive_Rigden]

it's : E for alcohol (ether alcohol).

 

[Signed Out]

India, Yankee, Zulu... X- Xenophobia.
Romeo, Juliet... T- Tempest.
Charlie, Whisky... I- Intoxicated.