I overheard a co-worker once trying to spell out a mailing list address to a customer using a NATO-like alphabet, but he began, "M as in Mary, L as in Larry..."

I overheard a co-worker once trying to spell out a mailing list address to a customer using a NATO-like alphabet, but he began, "M as in Mary, L as in Larry..." We ribbed him pretty good for that. I even created my own Completely Useless Alphabet from that incident: A as in Aerie B as in Barry C as in Carrie D as in Dairy etc.