Mogwi, boot on 'the foot. Shack or Nimrod on Surface Surveillance off Crete anchorage spots an O-boat creeping in on SovMedRon. "Tool tool, are you available for Casex?"
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Fighter Command late 50s. Squadron pilots were required to participate in regular aircraft recognition tests. Every so often the tests would be marked at Group HQ and the results sent to the squadrons. FC targets were Eastern Bloc bombers and fighters. Pilots had to know the wing span of their prospective targets in order to set their gun sights for each target. Fighters were generally about 30ft wingspan and bombers 50 ft.

The tests required the actual aircraft to be identified, but Flt Lt Bloggs disagreed, and completed his tests with "Large" or "Small" instead of aircraft types. It was reported that a message was received by the Squadron Aircraft Recognition Officer along the lines of "Please inform Flt Lt Bloggs that if he continues to submit such test reports, he will get my large up his small. Signed AOC"

Or so I was told.

Surely the one to beat is "peccavi", reputed to be the message sent by General Napier when he conquered Sindh / Scinde.

I did French and German at skool but not Latin, but am reliably informed it is a good pun.
Wiki disputes its authorship.

and there is always "who is Round, and why does he object? upon reading a minute in file: "round objects" unsigned.

Sounds like a load of balls

Female radar controller vectoring an aircraft for the ILS 'is it all right if I turn you on at 5 miles'?
Well what would you say?

Surely the best message ever has to be from the Spartans to King Philip II of Macedon.

After Philip decided to start putting pressure on Sparta, he sent them the following threatening message:

“If I win this war, you will be slaves forever.”

The Spartans sent back a single word in reply:

“If”.

Maybe not as succinct, but if we're talking about the Spartans one must mention "Molon Labe." Or "come and get them" when ordered to lay down arms.

Back in WW2, allied bombers heading for targets in Italy often 'inadvertantly' entered Swiss airspace (short cut to save fuel)
One night the Swiss signalled to them 'you are in Swiss airspace'
Allied aircraft replied 'we know'
Then the Swiss said 'if you do not leave our airspace we will be forced to shoot at you'
Allied aircraft 'we know'.
So the Swiss started firing some AA which was well off target.
Allied aircraft 'your AA is well off target'
Swiss reply 'we know'.

Sir Humphrey Appleby responding in a note to a written comment by Jim Hacker, Minister for Administrative Affairs...

Ditto

You are entering my black hole.

From Bastogne

"Nuts"

I always thought the female controller quite was "You are entering my dark area"

Response "Wriggle, honey"

Well, brightens a Monday morning.....

Round Objects

whole program - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5tc4jk
starts at 6:24 for a bit then returns to topic after 18:10

Round Objects starts - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5tc4jk?start=384
Returns to topic - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5tc4jk?start=1090

I had small drop outs in the video/audio but that may have been due to my PC/connection.

It's on youtube with a severely cropped video frame if the dropouts on dailymotion persist and are too annoying.

starts - returns to topic -
The 10 funniest ever Yes Minister moments
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/the...ister-moments/

Perhaps.

But it is still a nice personal touch, in what has become a rather faceless, uncaring corporate organisation. He doesn't have to do it!

Hence my "reputed" qv.

In messing comments book circa 1979.

"General Sameness of comestibles"

Some things just stick with you.