The scene: An Infantry Officer's Mess in Scotland
The Occassion: The visit of Comd Inf (A very snotty English General)
CO Inf Bn: (reminiscing about characters at his former staff posting) "Oh I remember Brigadier X, He was an illiterate idiot."
Comd Inf: "Brigadier X is my brother-in-law and he's got a first from Oxford in English."
Seperate time:
AAC Sqn OC (of a sqn somewhere between 662 664) being very clever, whilst leading a flight of Lynx, made his contact call to Hannover Zone in German.
Afetr a short pause the slightly puzzled German voice replied in English: "AA 6xx, understand you're a Hoover at 2000', OK clear to route as requested."
This was followed several minutes later by the call:"AA 6xx, this is Hannover Zone, be careful there's a refrigerator same height reciprocal heading..."