Angela Merkel arrives at Paris airport,
Customs official: " Nationality?"
Merkel " German"
customs official "Occupation?"
Merkel "No, just visiting for a couple of days..."
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Overheard at Paris airport...
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HerrFlick wrote:Twinspark wrote:Australian immigration: 'Criminal record?'
Response: 'I didn't know you still needed one.'
And that's just to become a politician here...
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True story (apparrently):
True story
Graham Chapman (Python) was coming into Australia with another Python, and they asked "Do you have a criminal record?"
He answered "Is it STILL required?"
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The German air controllers at Frankfurt Airport are a short-tempered lot. They not only expect one to know one's gate parking location but how to get there without any assistance from them. So it was with some amusement that a PanAm 747 listened to the following exchange between Frankfurt ground control and a British Airways 747 (call sign "Speedbird 206") after landing:
Speedbird 206: "Good Morning Frankfurt, Speedbird 206 clear of the active runway."
Ground: "Guten morgen! You vill taxi to your gate!"
The big British Airways 747 pulled onto the main taxi way and slowed to a stop.
Ground: "Speedbird, do you not know vare you are going?"
Speedbird 206: "Stand by a moment ground, I'm looking up our gate location now."
Ground (with some arrogant impatience): "Speedbird 206, haff you never flown to Frankfurt before?"
Speedbird 206 (cooly): "Yes, I have indeed. Twice in 1944 but we didn't stop."
Speedbird 206: "Good Morning Frankfurt, Speedbird 206 clear of the active runway."
Ground: "Guten morgen! You vill taxi to your gate!"
The big British Airways 747 pulled onto the main taxi way and slowed to a stop.
Ground: "Speedbird, do you not know vare you are going?"
Speedbird 206: "Stand by a moment ground, I'm looking up our gate location now."
Ground (with some arrogant impatience): "Speedbird 206, haff you never flown to Frankfurt before?"
Speedbird 206 (cooly): "Yes, I have indeed. Twice in 1944 but we didn't stop."
R1200GS - 'El Bastardo' - The Exploder.
R1100S BCR - 'Flashart the Misguided Missile'.
KTM 990SMT- 'Scratch' - Hoonery Assured.
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R1100S BCR - 'Flashart the Misguided Missile'.
KTM 990SMT- 'Scratch' - Hoonery Assured.
www.bmrider.com - The cobbled part of the information superhighway.