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by WillAdams 668 days ago
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."

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There is the story about an old-boy RAF pilot who, in the late 1970's was towing a target for a German ships gunnery practice.

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".