(Mildly off-topic - apologies, but I can't stop thinking about this and need to get it off my chest.)

So there I was recently doing (for long and convoluted reasons) a same-day regional mileage run, up the front on one of the few regional flights which has First...

(More precise details are withheld to protect the innocent.)

I was the only person in the F cabin so the ISM had taken two of the crew off to help down the back of the 744 (which was packed) and left me in the capable hands of a beautiful, tall girl who shall remain nameless (although her name is seared in my memory). As always with Cathay she was relaxed and friendly, and we had chatted pleasantly for a bit.

I had taken a rather nice brunch and settled down to a movie, selecting The Magdalene Sisters, a somewhat heavy, but well-reviewed movie which was in the "Original Cut" selection. By the way, one of the things I like about the CX AVOD is that they really do show original cuts, and not the horribly censored (sometimes almost to the point of incomprehensibility) versions which most other airlines require.

Anyway, it was a sunny day so my personal attendant had shut all the blinds, cleared my tables and dimmed the lights way down low for me to watch the film.

A little while later, I was sipping my cappuccino and concentrating on the screen when I was aware that she was standing beside me. So, as I always do, I slipped off one earphone, to hear her ask "is it a good movie?".

Now this is a question I have been asked by cabin crew a few times before, but never previously with such a big smile and in the "raised eyebrow" tone that it carried this time.

And the reason was obvious: at this precise moment in the movie there was on the screen in front of us the sight of a dozen or so full frontally nude convent girls being ranked by two nuns on the hairiness of their nether regions.

Now over the last five years that I have been a regular (red-blooded, male, single)Cathay passenger I will admit to having fantasised more than a few times about being in a situation something like this... a darkened F cabin with just me and one gorgeous Cathay stewardess and apparently, as I perceived it, being offered the opportunity to chance my arm at getting to know her better. I've even thought in detail about lines that might work in different situations.

But to be honest, I was completely thrown by what was on the screen. And all I could do was bluster non-commitally in a very embarrassed sort of way until she put an end to my misery by offering to make me another cappuccino.

And ever since I've been kicking myself for my inadequacy.

Can anyone help me? What would have been the best one line reply in this situation which would not have been tacky or out of place in a CX F cabin but which would have given her the opportunity to take the conversation on in the right direction?