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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Do you remember the famous Olympic skier Picabo Street (pronounced Pee-Ka-Boo) Well, Picabo is not just an athlete. She is now a nurse currently working at an Intensive Care Unit of a large metropolitan hospital. She is not permitted to answer the hospital telephones any longer. It caused too much confusion when she would answer the phone and say,
Picabo, I.C.U.
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I worked in a town in the UK called Staines for a while. On the same business park as our offices was a Siemens office. It was commonly agreed that they would answer the phone; "Siemens, Staines"!