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In one venerable urban legend, an airliner encounters a particularly rough patch of turbulence, and the captain comes on the intercom to reassure the passengers that everything is okay and that the flight should be smooth one the rest of the way. He forgets to turn off the intercom after his announcement, however, and everyone in the passenger cabin hears his subsequent comment to the co-pilot: Boy, I sure could use a blow job and a cup of coffee right about now! As a flight attendant frantically rushes up the aisle towards the cockpit to warn the captain that his microphone is open, a waggish passenger calls out after her, Don't forget the coffee! Here are the various forms in which this tale has been presented over the years: This joke-cum-legend offers a healthy dose of male chauvinism in featuring that classic object of male sexual fantasies, the comely female servant. (Live-in domestic help being a rarity these days, flight attendants are the nearest contemporary equivalent of the French maids men lusted after in days of yore.) Though the airlines may have limits on exactly which passenger needs flight attendants should satisfy, pilots are important people who regard these hard-working women as mere objects whose purpose is to cater to their every whim, this joke tells us. A humorous story that started out as a joke, this legend has changed with the times, as the two versions above demonstrate. The earlier version is bit of good-natured — if sexist — fun, employing the common motif of embarrassing private thoughts accidentally broadcast over an open microphone. Since then, it has assumed a much more crude and demeaning form. Sightings: Look for this one in the 1997 film Good Will Hunting.
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