Erlkönig: navy+civilian-on-radio.shtml

[collected 2002-03-26]

Originally circulated as a true story, the following is actually simply
an internet myth, but it's funny anyway.

Radio conversation with the Navy:

Navy:  Please divert your course 15 degrees to the north to avoid a
collision.

Civilian:  Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to the south to
avoid a collision.

Navy:  This is the captain of a U.S. Navy ship.  Again I say, divert
YOUR course.

Civilian:  No, I say again, you divert YOUR course.

Navy:  This is the aircraft carrier Enterprise.  We are a large warship
of the U.S. Navy.  Divert YOUR course now!

Civilian:  This is a lighthouse.  Your call.