For most of my professional life, I've had a horrible fear of making important phone calls. I wrote out scripts, rehearsed them, and hesitated dialing the last digit of the phone number until I was confident that I was ready to talk to another human being. The main reason for my irrational fear is the fact that my brain completely shuts down when I'm nervous. On one such occasion, I was asked to phonetically spell someones e-mail address.
It did not go well.
Simply, it began with M... as in... Monkey... and ended in uproarious laughter. (Apparently a normal person would have said M as in Mary.) Needless to say, when I got off the phone I promptly googled "phonetic alphabet" and taped the chart next to my computer.
In the spirit of inefficiently using company time on Fridays, the video below is like an AFV for jungle animals. It's narrated in French, but all you really need to know is that the fruit they are snacking on is the equivalent of several jack and cokes.
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