Dear Cyprus Airways

Alan B'Stard

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http://www.topcomedy.co.uk/dearair2000/cyprusairways31stmarch.htm

Found this site some years ago and wasted several days of my life reading through it! Written by an ex-BBC comedy writer and several chunks of his website have now been published.

Dear Coca Cola is quite good as well!

http://web.archive.org/web/20060101071746/www.razza.fsnet.co.uk/dearcocacola/coca28april.htm
 

Alan B'Stard

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I'm gonna bump this as I've just given "The Timewaster letters" to my kids and my boy has said how funny they are, which is nothing compared to this!!
 

Alan B'Stard

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Mr T Ravenscroft
11 Longlands Rd
New Mills
STOCKPORT
Cheshire
SK12 3BL

31st March 1994
Cyprus Airways
Euston Centre
29/31 Hampstead Road
LONDON
NW1 3JA

Dear Cyprus Airways

I would love to visit Cyprus for a holiday, but unfortunately there is one thing stopping me, for despite my being as British as John Bull himself I look extremely Turkish. I have a swarthy complexion, a dusky olive skin, jet black hair and limpid brown eyes. I also have a thick, droopy moustache which has the effect of making me look even more Turkish than I already look. I could of course shave of my moustache, but unfortunately I have a rather unsightly harelip, and on balance I would rather look Turkish than stupid.

I gather that relations between the Greeks and the Turks are somewhat dodgy to say the least, and quite naturally the last thing that I want whilst holiday is to be hounded and unfairly treated by the indigenous population. There is no doubt whatsoever that I would be mistaken for a Turk as last year my wife and I and three other couples went to Turkey for our holidays, and it was quite noticeable that I was the only one of our party not to be constantly pestered by carpet salesmen. In fact one day when I was browsing in the bazaar a Turkish salesman asked me to mind his stall for a few minutes while he went for a haircut, and I almost sold a carpet to two Germans.

However, and despite the handicap of looking Turkish, I would still like to visit Aphrodite's Isle. Perhaps the situation isn't quite as bad as I have been led to believe, and the hostility felt by Greeks and Turks to each other has been exaggerated? My wife fancies the Paphos area, and if Turk-hating isn't too bad in Paphos I might just be persuaded to risk it. What do you think?

Yours faithfully

T Ravenscroft (Mr)

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The exchange between the letter writer and the company is very funny indeed.

Terry Ravenscroft used to write for Les Dawson, he was responsible for the Cissie & Ada sketches.
 

halfmanhalfbrisket

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You might enjoy these.. http://dontevenreply.com/index.php

Alas, as you might expect from winding people up on the internet.. there's rather a lot of potty mouth
 

Alan B'Stard

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Gonna bump this ancient thread as the author is now on twitter
@terryrazz

and his stuff is made available for free download on that amazon book read type thing quite frequently that also works on smart phones.

Very funny stuff and I guarntee that any time spent reading his material is not time wasted.
 
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