Heard a good one in North Queensland (regional Australia) where a lightie pilot, who rarely flew in controlled airspace, made a great call on first contact - callsign, acft type, position, intentions, level request etc, and then finished with the laconic Nth QLD "thanks, mate eh". (Seems everyone north of Mackay finishes their sentences with "eh")
For those without an Aussie accent, say "mate eh" out loud, with a lot of nasality and running the 2 words together .... sounds a lot like "Mayday"! It took the approach controller 2 further transmissions (each reply ending with mate, eh) after he said: "Roger Mayday, what is the nature of your emergency?" before he realised the guy was just being friendly!
While we're in North QLD, also heard a great exchange between TVL approach and a very chatty yank pilot.
ATC: (trying to get a "visual" report in order to issue a visual approach) "N123CE report inflight conditions".
ACFT: (broad west coast US accent, somewhat bewildered and consequently talking quite slowly) "N123CE, ah, thanks for asking, we're pretty comfortable up here, ah, it's about 24 degrees and ah, yeah, we've just had some coffee, ah, thanks for asking..."
Entire approach room in hysterics except for the controller who had about 10 on frequency including another 2 under vectors, TWR asking for dep instructions and was also trying to coordinate outbounds with sector.
