I once heard a United 747 contact approach frequency at a major Australian airport:
"Melbourne Approach United XXX, outa 8 and a half for 6 and I gotta tell ya we're a little beefed up at the moment."
A somewhat puzzled response ensued from the Approach controller.
I was equally puzzled and queried friend of mine from the US and he said that United had probably breached the 250kt below 10000 speed restriction. Oh, of course, and here I was thinking he was requesting a holding pattern because the F/O hadn't finished his crew meal...
Yeah, standard phraseology could be improved on by US pilots...