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Old 05-12-2016, 07:52 AM
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The pilot

Frankfurt tower personnel are apparently well known for their impatient and somewhat unfriendly manner when dealing with pilots. One day the following conversation occurred:
BA 747 (Speedbird 206): "Good morning Frankfurt, Speedbird 206 clear to active."
Ground: "Good Morning. Taxi to your gate."
The British Airways 747 pulls onto the main taxiway and stops.
Ground: "Speedbird, do you know where you are going?
Speedbird 206: "Stand by, ground. I'm looking up the gate location now."
Ground (impatiently): "Speedbird 206, have you never flown to Frankfurt before?"
Speedbird 206 (coolly): "Yes, in 1944. But I didn't stop......"
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Old 05-12-2016, 05:40 PM
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Back when I worked for Sony, my boss told me a similar story. Several American employees were visiting Tokyo as guests of the company and the tour guide asked if anyone had seen Tokyo before. One of them replied "Yes, but it was through a bombsight".
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Old 05-15-2016, 03:30 AM
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I hope to remember this story correctly, after more than 30 years:

About October 1983, 19 years old, I was in England, Bath / Bristol area for a few weeks to improve my english. I arrived at a small train station with a heavy backpack and my guitar, tired out after almost 24 hours on the train and the ferry. Typical grey english autumn weather, cold and rainy.
With a smile, a grizzled little railway officer in his early sixties noticed my heavy german accent: "You´re deutschlander?"
Me: "Yes."
"Welcome to England. I have been to Germany too, a while ago."
"Great! Did you like it?"
"Errmmm, not too much..."
"What a pity. Why not?"
"Errrmmm..." The man wanted to be polite, then he understood I would not take it the wrong way, being born almost 20 years after the end of WW II. With a wry grin, he said: "I did not like it: Your compatriotes kept shooting!"
My roaring laughter assured him I did not take it the wrong way.
Honestly, I liked this little man.
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Old 05-15-2016, 07:48 PM
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Last December we hosted a crew of German engineers who were upgrading machinery for us. One day the talk evolved to where one of the engineers said his grandfather was a sailor on a U-Boat in the war. I commented how my Grandfather was a Merchant Marine sailor on an Atlantic convoy vessel. I said something like "Our Granddaddies didn't like each other very much, but we were lucky to be born at a time when we could be friends".
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"Our Granddaddies didn't like each other very much, but we were lucky to be born at a time when we could be friends".
Guess they would have liked each other when meeting under better circumstances.
My grandfather fought in the trench wars of WW.I and many times he spoke about his qualms of having cut off the lives of other young men because he had to, due to the circumstances of his time.
Always remember that Horst Rippert, the man who unknowingly shot down Antoine de Saint-Exupery, was a huge fan of this great author. When he found out after the war, it came to him as a shock. Rippert had to carry this burden his whole life and only revealed it in 2008, five years before his death.

But this is not comedy anymore. So let´s return to topic.
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