"What about the day when your beacon is inop then? Answer please."
Then we turn on the strobes instead and contact the ground crew to notify them that the beacon light is inoperative. Of course, we also contact the ground crew and double check that all ground crew are at a safe distance before starting the engines up anyway.
"What aircraft do you fly? We 'start' ours."
A346 and our engine start up checklist is headed as "Engine Initialisation" for some unknown reason. Probably sounds classier. I've been calling for that checklist for so long that nowadays I refer to it in public domain instead of saying 'start our engines'.