- General: How much land have we taken back off those dastardly Germans?
- Corporal: Well, Sir. We have pushed the enemy back...
- [moves a wedge with the German flag very slightly on a map]
- Corporal: ... two miles.
- General: [Gasps] Two mi... oh. That's not very much, is it? But, progress nevertheless, what? I think we should celebrate a job well done!
- Corporal: Well, it has taken us five months, Sir.
- General: Nyah nyah nyah. It's always the negatives with you, isn't it, Corporal? Modern warfare takes time, man!
- Corporal: It's cost us 620,000 men, Sir.
- General: Urgh, 6... oh. That is rather a lot, isn't it? But on the plus side, we are two miles nearer to Berlin, what? How much further to go?
- Corporal: 490 miles, Sir.
- General: I see. So, we've only moved two miles in five months. So at this rate, we should be in Berlin by... oh, don't tell me...
- [the Corporal counts on his fingers]
- General: ... 490, divided by the 2, times by the 5, carry over the doodah... and, er... what's-eh-my-face...
- Corporal: It's over 100 years, Sir.
- General: Oh. Er... well, we... won't be alive then, will we?
- Corporal: Not with you in charge, Sir, no.