Airport withdraws plane rude guide to eurozone

28.02.2002 / 00:00 CET

Some of the more eagle-eyed continental passengers at London's Stansted airport recently forced officials to withdraw a rather rude Rough Guide to the Airport, which included the following list - allegedly designed to help Brits visiting the eurozone remember in which twelve countries they could spend the new money. It ran thus:

Belgium

Austria

France

Finland

Luxembourg

Ireland

Netherlands

Germany

Portugal

Italy

Greece

Spain

A quick glance down the list at the countries' capital letters offers readers the words 'baffling pigs'.

Said Stansted spokesman Robbie Barrigan: "There have been complaints and we have withdrawn the guide.

"But there was no pun joke intended," he insisted.

"We will obviously pay more attention to our proofreading next time."

EN has just one thing to say: "Pigs might fly, Robbie, pigs might fly...

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