Oh dear, this is all getting a touch serious. We've all dropped the odd bollock, intentionally or not. The trick is in how you see yourself, how your boss sees you, but more importantly, how everybody else sees you.
In this case, the world and his wife saw the small object falling, hence the banter. Mind you, Farnborough is only every two years, so a new GPS, a let-down chart, an I-SPY world atlas and a new crew should see us OK for 2006.