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Old 26th Jul 2003, 21:53
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Not quite on the ATC humour topic, but kind of reminds me of it.

Some years ago, I was working for a software company in London with offices worldwide. We had support facilities in most countries and in theory all support calls had to go to the local office however at about 9:15 one morning, I was sitting close to a call handler in london when she took a call from 'overseas'. The lady in particular was a real diamond, but had a very Sarf London accent. A short extract of what we could hear was .

: Sorry, ooo ar ya working four?
: ooo ?
: Boing ?
: Sorry we aint got a customer cawed Boing
: never 'eard of ya, what d yer make ?
: planes ? . . . . not over ere ya dont
: oh ya in 'merica, right. Wass ya system number ?
: Boing? Boing ? (tapping the system number in the computer)
: Oh Boeing . . . why didnt ya say!(office disolved into fits of helpless laughter). , so, sir, what seems to be the problem

It still makes me laugh to think of it and for months, I loved being given instructions when flying that gave me the chance to Boing the controller.
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