| Or cue: >Speedbird 206: Frankfurt, Speedbird 206 clear of active runway. >ATC: Speedbird 206. Taxi to gate Alpha One-Seven. >BA 747 pulled onto the main taxiway and slowed to a stop. >ATC: Speedbird, do you not know where you are going? >Speedbird 206: Stand by, Ground, I’m looking up our gate location now. >ATC (annoyed): Speedbird 206, have you not been to Frankfurt before? >Speedbird 206 (nonchalantly): “Yes, twice in 1944, but it was dark ... and I didn't land.”. https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=391043 Or perhaps this is more apt: >Lufthansa (in German): "Ground, what is our start clearance time?" >Ground (in English): "If you want an answer you must speak in English." >Lufthansa (in English): "I am a German, flying a German airplane, in Germany. Why must I speak English?" >Unknown voice from another plane (in a beautiful British accent): "Because you lost the bloody war." |
He joked over the radio, "the last time the Germans shot at me it was during the war".
The reply came back "And zis time I vill not miss".