At Heaven-in-Devon, met brief was always entertaining.
The S Nav O was told off for using his finger to point out various things on his OHP slides. So he made a pointer. Next day, on with the slides and then the pointer. The whole place fell about - because the pointer was a broad, arrow shaped device with a slightly rounded end. It looked just as if he'd slapped his tadger onto the OHP! Stn Cdr thought he was taking the pi$$ and went puce!
Stn Cdr was always asking questions at the student recce briefs. Those tedious things about Russian tanks with slack tracks, curved handrails etc. One of his favourites was "How can you tell it from one of ours?"... One day the late 'Shlib' Wxly came up with the closing line "And for those who want to know the difference between one of ours and one of theirs, theirs'll be heading west and ours will be heading east!"
Another mate opened with "The release range of the xxxx is 1667 yards. The T-whatever tank is nn feet long. At 1667 yards that's (some very small value) mills. Here is the sight picture of the T-whatever at 1667 yards...."
It was about the size of a piece of fly sh*t. But he went on: "You will note the curved handrails on the turrret, the overlapping GT wheels, the fume extractor at the end of the barrel, the slack tracks....." Again, the whole place fell about - except fot the Stn Cdr whose neck went deep purple.
Sometime afterwards a message came down from on high requiring the recce briefs to be taken more seriously!