Microblog Memes

P for Pterodactyl

S for Sea

W for Why

E for Eye

G for Gnu

J for Jalapeño

My Battlefield 3 crew would designate objectives on voice coms as, "Ango, Bango, Chango, and Django".

I once had a client tell me, "T as in... T."

Yeah, that was helpful.

M as in Mancy

I can remember one time:

"P for Potato",

"B for... err... i dunno, Botato?".

Love my copy of "P is for Pterodactyl". Great book, very uneducational.

I worked in a call centre about 10 years ago. one time some old, presumably white, old woman called in and when spelling her name included "N for N****r"

I was dumbfounded

I had too many customers get confused when I asked, "and that is pudenda spelled P as in Papa, U as in Uniform..." customer interrupts, "why are you talking like a radio?"

Had a regular that would spell it in NATO, and said he served in artillery. Heard just fine on his good ear, tinittus was just a low hum.

"T for Terrorist"

The CS Representative I was talking to: "Sir, this is an Airline"

I was frustrated with the phone support agent and used ‘S, as in Stupid’ and I got hung up on.

alpha bravo charlie delta echo foxtrot etc. it's SO HELPFUL when talking on the phone. I learned them all because no one could figure out my name.

“K for knight, P for pterodactyl, G for gnome”

The police rang my house once, and he told me where I could reach them, and spelled out his name. I started writing his name out, but by the fourth name, I was thinking wtf is going on. This guy was spelling out his name by using names for each letter. A for Alex, B for Bob.

T as in tardigrade

M as in Mancy?

My last name has a z in it and I had a customer service person say "z as in xylophone?"

I'm all about that NATO phonetic alphabet - which for some reason rubs certain people answering phones the wrong way.

Can't say I don't have a couple substitutions, though (Zebra instead of Zulu, Sam instead of Sierra, Frank instead of Foxtrot), but it's not like I'm working the radio of an aircraft or something.

A for 'Orses

B for mutton

C for yourself

etc

Okay, that's K, as in KY Jelly. O, as in OnlyFans. L as in Lo Wang. A as in Asshole. N as in...

N as in "pneumatic", U as in "eulogy", K as in "Québec"...

R as in Robert Loggia

C for [ˌt͡ʃɛ.kʰɪ.sl̥oʊ̯.ˈvɑ.kʰi.ə] (Yes I did narrow transcription for the purpose of making it look worse 💀)

C for Czechoslovakia may be a slight improvement over my go-tos:

A for Antidisestablishmentarianism

B for Buckminsterfullerene

C for Counterrevolutionaries

L for… um Lesbian? Was one of my favourites

Easy. A is for apple B is for bapple C is for capple ...

Always been a petty pet peeve of mine. When I was training customer service reps I'd hand out a sheet and suggest they nail it up in their cube.

So much easier when everyone's on the same page. The military uses the phonetic alphabet because it's crystal clear, even over sketchy coms.

Why would you make up some bullshit of your own, having to constantly stop and think about it, when the pros already have a working system?! FFS, you don't even have to make the effort to memorize it, just use it a few times, done, it's in your head forever. Now I'm getting mad. (Told you I was petty about this.)

Anyone know why they use "niner"? Doesn't seem to mix up with other numbers.

EDIT: That's 2 band names I came out with today.

Petty Pet Peeve™

Anal Rail Gun™

My favourite was E as in estrogen

Q-cumber looks like a name for a tech startup which name was chosen as a bet or something like that.

"R" as in "Robert Loggia"

Years ago I was on the phone with an airline agent and I had to read out my verification number. When I came to the letter V my brain short circuited and the only word I could think of was "vagina". I sat there in a panic for probably about 10 seconds going "uhhh... uhhh..." before I finally remembered the word "valentine".