Re: Twitchy

In article <g1k1fn$9kt$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Mike Andrews" <mikea@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, 28 May 2008 16:07:02 +0000 (UTC),
Roger Burton West <roger+asr200805@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<20080528170640.767939837257476@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Tai wrote:

There's a gentleman on line #1 from
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch for you.

"No, that's Lima, Lima, Alpha... to hell with it, just go to the Menai
Bridge and turn left."

Spell it phonetically, and you may just get a visit from someone who
wants to know why you're sending coded messages:

" LIMA LIMA ALPHA NOVEMBER FOXTROT
ALPHA INDIA ROMEO PAPA WHISKEY
LIMA LIMA GOLF WHISKEY YANKEE
NOVEMBER GOLF YANKEE LIMA LIMA
GOLF OSCAR GOLF ECHO ROMEO
YANKEE COCA HOTEL WHISKEY YANKEE
ROMEO NOVEMBER DELTA ROMEO OSCAR
BRAVO WHISKEY LIMA LIMA LIMA
LIMA ALPHA NOVEMBER TANGO YANKEE
SIERRA INDIA LIMA INDIA OSCAR
GOLF OSCAR GOLF OSCAR GOLF
OSCAR COCA HOTEL"

"COCA" ? WTF?

"Roger. Wilco. Out."
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Department of redundancy department on line two.

Try:

ISPELL LONDON LONDON ACK NUTS FREDDY ACK INK ROBERT PIP WILLIAM LONDON
LONDON GEORGE WILLIAM YELLOW NUTS GEORGE YELLOW LONDON LONDON GEORGE ORANGE
GEORGE EDDIE ROBERT YELLOW CORK HARRY WILLIAM YELLOW ROBERT NUTS DON ROBERT
ORANGE BEER WILLIAM LONDON LONDON LONDON LONDON ACK NUTS TOC YELLOW ESSES
INK LONDON INK ORANGE GEORGE ORANGE GEORGE ORANGE GEORGE ORANGE CORK HARRY
OVER.

Of course, fifty years later it would be a single entry in s SLIDEX grid,
and fifty years after that it would be an equivalent two digit entry on
BATCO card 012, _and_ it would be secure either way.

Chris.
(Yes, that /was/ the 1904 phonetic alphabet used by the British army. Not
one single letter has remained unchanged from 1904 through to the 1955 NATO
phonetic alphabet, though George, King, Uncle, William and Zebra were there
until the 1952 interservice version was replaced by the NATO version.)
uggc://jjj.eblnyfvtanyf.bet.hx/negvpyrf/nycun.ugz

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