Friday 4 May 2007

Unreasonable Celery Intolerance No. 1


This was recently seen on a church sign in Hertfordshire. We can only assume that the CLS (see Interesting Celery Fact No. 5) are continuing their campaign from the underground.

Interesting Celery Fact No. 47

The word celery features in a new phonetic alphabet, recently created by Canadian social services, who wanted to get away from the stigmas implied by the old Nato phonetic alphabet. It would be greatly appreciated if all readers could switch to the use of this alphabet as soon as practicable

A – Albatross

B – Basingstoke

C – Celery

D – Dangle

E – Elderberry

F – Funnel

G – Globule

H – Hatstand

I – Ibsen

J – Jerusalem

K – Kermit

L – Linguini

M – Mellotron

N – Nougat

O – Oratorio

P – Persistence

Q – Quaalude

R – Redundant

S – Sausage

T – Teflon

U – Uttoxeter

V – Viticulture

W – Walrus

X – Xanadu

Y – Yesterday

Z - Zaphod