The Loony Bin
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Thu, 29 Aug 1996 13:46:25 +0100
Hiya People...
Here's a story illustrating a real breakdown in communications...
Wishes & Dreams...
- ANDREA
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------- Forwarded foolishness follows -------
The scene is World War II. It is true that the US used Navajo Indians
in the Pacific. They had a sign language that was like a code the
Japanese couldn't break. They also had a special uniform.
Well, one day, there was fierce fighting, and this Navajo...(what he was
doing in combat I don't know)...is running across a field, bullets
flying all around him, and he jumps in a fox hole.
The guy in the fox hole looks at him, not recognizing the insignia, and
tries to use sign language to figure out what this guy is. With his
hand cupped like a parachute..gliding down, palm down, he says, "Are you
airborne?"...no reaction...
Then, using his fingers to look like walking legs, "Are you
infantry?"...again, no reaction...
Now he has his forearm at a 45 degree angle to the ground, and moving
the arm up and down like a hydraulic ram, "Are you artillery?"...again,
no reaction...
Finally, with his hands around his eyes, like a pair of binoculars,
twisting motion for focus, "Are you a forward observer?"
Just then, the Navajo jumps out of the fox hole, bullets flying all
around again, and runs and jumps in another fox hole, where there
happens to be another Navajo.
The second Indian says, "Are you crazy? Why did you jump out of that
fox hole where you were safe to come over here? You could have been
killed."
Then the first Navajo says, "The guy in that fox hole was nuts. He
said...(Now you mock each of the signs in order)...'Later on, after the
sun goes down...(paratrooper hand motion), and everybody
leaves...(fingers walking), I'm going to fuck you in the ass...(ram, arm
motion), till your eyes bug out...(Hand, binocular motion).'"