Actual radio conversation released by the Chief of Naval Operations
#1: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid
a collision.
#2: Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to South to avoid
a collision.
#1: This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert
YOUR course.
#2: No. I say again, you divert YOUR course.
#1: THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER ENTERPRISE, WE ARE A LARGE WARSHIP
OF THE US NAVY. DIVERT YOUR COURSE NOW!
#2: This is a lighthouse. Your call.