Owain F Carter
Acronyms
Humour
Airlines
- ALITALIA - Always Late In Take-Off, Always Late In Arrival (or)
Aircraft Landing In Tokyo, All Luggage In Australia
- BCAL (British Caledonian Airways) - Best C*** Aloft
- BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) - Better On A
Camel (or) Bend Over Again, Christine
- BWIA (British West Indian Airways) - Better Walk It Alone
- CPA (Canadian Pacific Air) - Can't Promise Anything
- EL AL - Everything Lousy, Always Late
- PAL (Portuguese Airlines) - Pick Another Line
- PAN AM (Pan American Airways) [Pandemonium Scareways] -
Pilots Are Normally All Maniacs
- PIA (Pakistan International Airlines) - Please Inform Allah
- QUANTAS (Queensland and Northern territories Aerial Services)
- Queer And Nasty, Try Another Service (or) Queers And Nancies Together
As Stewards
- SABENA (Société Belge d'Exploitation de la
Navigationn Aérienne) - Sodomy And Buggery Endanger Natural Appetites
(or) Such A Bloody Experience, Never Again
- SAS (Scandinavian Airlines System) - Sweet And Sexy
- TAP (Tap Air Portugal) - Take Another Plane
- TWA (Trans World Airlines) - Travel Without AArrival (or)
Try Walking Across
Places
- BURMA - Be Upstairs Ready My Angel, the sort of thing that
correspondents used to put in their letters when trying to get sexy things past
the eyes of military censors in time of war.
- NORWICH - (K)Nickers Off Ready When I Come Home
- EDINBURGH - Erection Definately Imminent Now, Book Usual Rooms,
Grand Hotel
- LLANFAIR...GOGOGOCH - Listen, Love, Accountancy's No Fun ... God,
Oh God, Oh God, Oh Christ, Hanky!
- WALES - Will Arrive Late Expecting Sex
- NAMIBIA- 'Nickers Around Me In Bed, I'm Afraid (or) Not
Action Man In Bed, I Agree
- TODMORDEN - Tonight Our Downstairs Maid Ought Really Dine Elsewhere
(Noise!) (or) Teeth Out, Dear, My Organ Requires Deflating 'Ere Night
(or) Turn Off Dictation Machine, Office Raverm Discretion Ends Now
Railways
- LNER (London and North Eastern Railway) - Late And Never
Early
- LMS (London Midland and Scottish) - 'Elle Of A Mess (or)
Let Me Sleep (or) Lord's My Shepherd
- GWR (Great Western Railway) - Go When Ready (or) Great
Way Round (or) God's Wonderful Railway
- LCD (London Clapham and Dover) - London, Smash 'Em and Do
For 'Em (or) London, Shashem And Turnover
- GC (Great Central) - Gone Completely
- MSL (Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway) - Money
Sunk and Lost (or) Muck Sludge and Lightning
- MGN (Midland & Great Northern) - Muddle and Go Nowhere
I.B.M.
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