RIMMER: Mayday! Mayday! I wonder why it's "Mayday"?
LISTER: Eh?
RIMMER: The distress call. Why do you say "Mayday"? It's only a bank holiday. Why not "Shrove Tuesday" or "Ascension Sunday"? Ascension Sunday! Ascension Sunday! The fifteenth Wednesday after Pentecost! The fifteenth Wednesday after Pentecost!
LISTER: It's French, you doink. It's m'aider — "help me". M'—ai—der!