British WWII hero recounts story.....

[Devildoc]

If you haven't read about Sir Douglas Bader, do it. This is a great story, one of many:

The most famous pilot of all – Douglas Bader – showed just how wicked that humour could be after the war, when he gave a talk at a posh girls’ school.
He said: “So there were two of the f***ers behind me, three f***ers to my right, another f***er on the left…”
At this point the headmistress panicked. She said: “I think you should know, girls, that the Fokker was a type of German plane.”
Bader replied: “Don’t know about that. These chaps were flying Messerschmitts.”

 

[Marauder06]

That's pretty funny!

That story reminded me of a briefing we received from an Israeli brigadier at one of their big bases in the south. He was explaining to a group of Yale and West Point students that Israeli soldiers have weapons "to combat sweat." So immediately I thought that he meant "hey, dealing with locals is hard, so we have guns so we don't have to crack a sweat out in this heat."

With his accent, it took me a while to realize he meant "threat."