Phil,

Here are the ones I've used for my call, WA1RTB:

"Radishes, turnips and beets"
"Return to base"
"Whiskey after 1 ruins the bladder"

I know a K1BXC who is a master at coming up with good phonetics for people. 
He uses "Brand X consumer" for himself, and he came up with the first set of 
phonetics I used for my call.  He had a friend, WA1SSZ who he referred to as 
the "sexy slippery zipper."

I don't know how meaningful this one is, but my friend K1PXE often uses 
"pneumonia, xylophone, eider".  Let's put that one in the category of most 
obscure.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2014 16:46
Subject: Fhonetic Calls With Meaning


> You will have to slow down reading this message and you might have to 
> spell
> a few by individual letters to get the idea.  I remember how hard we all
> used to work back in the day, as they say, trying to find phonetics that 
> had
> meaning.  For example, I was WA0ORO and friends called me Old Rotten
> oranges, old rotten operator, onion rings only, I used Oranges Radishes, 
> and
> onions, and a few others.  A friend was old dead horse,, another was dirty
> hams underwear, he was my Elmore, hot Quaker Oats, I tickle women, old
> yellow toilet, slippery yellow banana, wild blue yonder, old rotten 
> apples,
> April may and June, hop skip and a jump, mighty quick microphone, Maximum
> Quality maintained, who helped me study electronics and explain things I
> couldn't understand at 15 related to studying for the advance and extra so
> he was an Elmer, too, loud mouth amateur, onions with jellow, old milk
> bottle,Sweet Hawaiian oranges, a two letter call a friend has I call him
> Corn Radio CR, Another friend used to be two left feet, and here are a
> couple you have to stop and think about for a second or two, pennies,
> nickels and dimes, PND, and another was Ones, nines, and eights or WA0ONE.
> Nine pound hammer, two gun Louie, A CW buddy of mine I call Curly Moe and
> Larry so I call him Curly for short but he won't let anybody else call him
> that; not even for a nick name.  I have a friend who used to be NF0Z and 
> he
> would sometimes identify as 9 5 0 0 and screw everybody up thinking he was 
> a
> CB operator on the wrong frequency.  Don't pay cash is a friend here in
> Denver, Howard's pig farm, he's passed away long ago now, hot water pipes,
> Horses hind end, and many others that will likely come to mind.  Of 
> course,
> as always, there are a few I can't repeat.  Want to add to the list?
>
> Phil.
> K0NX
>