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POINTLESS THREAD III: ESCAPE FROM RAPTOR MOUNTAIN AGAIN

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Dliessmgg:

Barmymoo:
I find it hard to believe that is really real but I so badly want it to be.

pwhodges:
It's an age-old classic, of course, but none the worse for that. 

There's a slightly similar one (actually not very similar, now I think about it) from WW2:  The German propaganda machine was gearing up to announce that a U-boat had damaged the major English ship "Nelson", when they realised that the radio message that they had thought said (in translation): "Nelson torpedoed but not sunk" had actually used the word "Felsen" (which means rock)...

Also the reputed message sent from a bored warship in the South Atlantic during a quiet period of the war:

I wish I were a little grub
   With whiskers round my tummy.
I'd climb into the honey pot
   And make my tummy gummy.

bicostp:

--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 17 Oct 2011, 13:33 ---I find it hard to believe that is really real but I so badly want it to be.

--- End quote ---

Sorry. :(

http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthouse.asp

LTK:
Hey, we don't need Snopes when we've got Paul now, do we?

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