Re: Nothing so severe
Back in the late 1980s, a group of us were travelling on a ferry from Italy to Greece. It was a long journey and every tannoy announcement was made in 5 languages, in order - Italian, Greek, French, English and German.
One game was to try and guess the message before the English version was announced. What became funnier to a bunch of lads raised on 1960/1970s war movies was the fact that no matter how innocuous the announcement and how polite the English version was, e.g. "Please note the restaurant will be closing in 10 minutes", every message in German started with "Achtung! Achtung!"
Cue lads responding "Dive dive dive" and throwing themselves on the floor.
Happy days.