Just say 'Japan' and get it over with!

All I'm going to say in my defence is it can be a long while
between thrills in this job.

In our programs we often have to leave little notes to the sender to indicate when a caption should be cleared from the scene to make way for a graphic or a big pause in speech.

You see things like...

** CLEAR FOR TEMPS **

and

** CLEAR FOR FIRE **

Imagine me rubbing my little hands with glee when last night I got to type...

** CLEAR FOR TAKEOFF **

Hee hee!