Don't have the original to hand, so I'll have to paraphrase it.
This was out of an Aussie magazine section titled "on the airbands" and relates to a story from many years ago when, if memory serves me right, Qantas were still flying 707's
QF123 makes inbound call to Bombay approach and requests weather update (during the monsoon period)
Bombay ATC (think Peter Sellers accent): Qantas123 Bombay weather is ...blah blah blah ... with 10 Octas of cloud at 1,000'
QF123: Ahhhh... sir? surely that is 8 octa's?
ATC: Negative Qantas123, I have seen 8 octa's and this is much much worse!