New Nimrod Mk 1, stateside, when asked what a Nimrod was gave the usual bullsh*t speil.
Moments later, civ aircraft who had heard the original question but missed the reply came up and asked for a repeat. Quick as a flash a Panam aircraft chipped in.
"It is the UK's state of the art anti-submarine warfare aircraft DUMMY."
Well we think it had a state of the art crew.