“[from a skit about airports] You know you're in trouble when at the control tower, there's a note taped to the door that says "Back in five minutes."”
Games Rednecks Play (1995)
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Wood, Christopher. "Terrible Hard", Says Alice. London: Constable. 1970. (chapter 1)
Funeral in Berlin (1964; repr. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966) pp. 144-5
Described there as a joke current in 1960s Czechoslovakia