Quote Originally Posted by Gunner View Post
If I hear this one a thousand times, It will still crack me up.
I think I HAVE seen this one a thousand times, with every conceivable mix of nations and ship types involved. Here it is on youtube (the USN having cleverly disguised the "USS Montana" as a T42 destroyer):



Of course the navigator in the office (usual killjoy) points out that the "lighthouse" will have no course and speed (as its a lighthouse 'd'oh) and so its nature would be apparent from the outset. But then again navigators are not noted for their sense of humour :)

Currently doing the rounds in a modified form featuring Argentinean or Spanish air traffic control having a go at "unauthorised" air traffic in Falklands airspace and threatening to send up Mirages to intercept, only to hear "We are two RAF Typhoons, send 'em up, we'll wait"