Paul Garner, one of CM's associate nutters on
the show, would pretend to be a cab driver (or
something similar) and present airport tannoy
announcers with a piece of paper with some names
written on it to read over the PA system.
These foreign-looking and unusually
spelt names appear innocent enough...
until you try to pronounce them!
These are some examples - translations are
provided in case it's not clear enough!
Looks Like... | Reads Like... | Sounds Like... |
Arheddis Varkenjaab and Aywellbe Fayed | I hate this fucking job, and I will be fired | |
Arhevbin Fayed and Bybeiev Rhibodie | I've just been fired, and bye-bye everybody | |
Aynayda Pizaqvick and Malexa Kröest | I need a piss quick, and my legs are crossed | |
Awul Dasfilshabeda and Nowaynayda Zheet | Ah-Oo, that feel' s better and now I need a shit | |
Makollig Jezvahted and Levdaroum DeBahzted | My colleague just farted, and left the room, the bastard | |
Steelaygot Maowenbach and Tuka Piziniztee | Still, I got my own back and took a piss in his tea | |
A splendid fellow called Martin Pointon assisted Paul
in these gloriously puerile acts. Here's what he had
to say about them...
"The way the phonetic announcements
were done is as follows:
We'd go and sit on the balcony at Terminal 3,
directly under one of the speakers as the roof
is low. Put the DAT or tape machine in our bag with
the mic poking out of the top. We'd look for a
flight that'd arrived in the last 40 minutes
from somewhere where you'd expect mental names,
then write a letter saying "could we go and
pick up, etc from flight, etc". This way,
it looked like it'd been arranged in advance as the
flight arrival details were written on the note.
We also wore an ID-style badge and carried a mobile
so that we looked like taxi drivers. One of us would
get the first read out and then the other do the
second. We'd pretend to be unable to pronounce it
and then hand them the bit of paper. Long winded,
but you've heard the results yourself - well worth it.
As you know, we got rumbled doing the "My
colleague just, etc". They actually threatened
to arrest us as apparently they'd actually had
complaints over the previous weeks! We were
toying with doing it again just to see what they'd
arrest us for, but we rang Chris and all he said was,
"go to Gatwick!". This is the reason the
last set sound so crap 'cos Gatwick is a much
noisier place and the ceilings are high, so it was
difficult to get near a speaker. We also went round
both terminals as the first reading was rubbish.
The lengths we had to go to...
This is how they were spelt - it was a long time
ago and we never kept the papers, but I'm sure
this is how they were spelt...