again...poetic licence:
An antipodean P3, out off Townsville, after a damn good 'run ashore'.....cruising at FL230 and nursing solid hangovers and a few good dits from the night before.
ATC pipes up with "xxxx 845, message from one of our airtrafficers...she wants to say goodbye to your co-pilot"....after the obligatory "Rodger thanks" from the P3, ATC comes on-line again with "xxxx 845, another message from another controller, to your Nav
'Farewell, thanks for a great time'"......after 4 such messages from the girls in Townsville ATC to various crewmembers, the Orion crew request a climb to FL270........the reply from ATC: "If you boys have got the energy to get up there, you can have it"