Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.
This post has no point. You’ve been warned. There will be no Friday morning wit. Sorry. Fresh out. Instead you get my new favorite saying. See: Title. Consider it a more worldly alternative to WTF!? I’ve recently discovered that most every abbreviation sounds cooler in military phonetics, even if its more of a mouth full. Totally worth the effort. This is what happens when you are a good wife, and you watch Man TV with The Husband.
But this post needs a picture. Taking pictures of words is hard. And not very entertaining. The alternative?
Potatoes. Potatoes I grew. Red ones. Aren’t they purdy? I’m partial to them. So partial, it’s almost sad to eat them. My first potato harvest. I’ve a whole lot more plants. This was just testing the waters, erm dirt so to speak. And its been confirmed. We are in tubers.
How are these two items related? Military phonetics and fresh taters? They aren’t. Deal with it.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot your way towards a good weekend. Over.
Care to take a stab at phonetic fun? Be my guest. I’ve got more favorites, let’s see if anyone stumbles across them.
Comments
Last time I used military phonetics in public, I almost got in trouble
I was waiting to board a plane, and noticed the attendant, while checking tickets, was reading off the seat assignments while a colleague entered them into a computer. And she was using military phonetics for the letter portion.
I happened to be sitting in seat F.
So, upon reaching the front of the line, I handed my ticket over while saying “14 Foxtrot”.
She looked up at me, and sneered “We don’t use Foxtrot”.
I bit my tongue before I could offer another F-word they could use
And yea for the potatoes! I love growing them – it’s like an easter egg hunt every time you harvest some!
That’s a damn fine foxtrot story! Ha!
(lol to KB, above)
Pretty potatoes. No phonetic cleverness here either. Enjoy your weekend!
Karawynn – I am sure you are capable of phonetic cleverness.
I ate those potatoes this morning. They were extra good. Or is it echo golf?
One of my favorite three-letter-(word?) that my husband brought home from the army is “BFR”. As in, we can’t drive the tank down that way because there’s a BFR in the way. As in, Big effing Rock. That middle F in any three-letter expression always stands for the same thing.
The first time he heard our daughter talking about her ‘BFF’, he wondered why she’d be cursing about her friends. That’s army talk for you!
I would argue that BFF could work either way.
this isn’t military, but funny anyhow. My husband thought LOL meant lots of love. he wondered why so many colleagues included that in their emails. I was ROFL when I heard that.
That in and of itself is a LOL.
Charlie-Foxtrot, shortened to CF. As in, “the blog post I’m working on is a complete CF.
And you could say that you grew of cluster of potatoes, which would make them a Charlie-Papa. Which is funny because potato is papa in Spanish.
So really if you think about it, military phonetics have EVERYTHING to do with your ‘taters.
I can get behind Charlie Foxtrot.
Just like Fox Mulder, I knew the connection to potatoes was out there.