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Straying just a bit off-topic, but there's a MASH* episode that illustrates this type of warning drop in instructions. Hawkeye and Trapper are trying to defuse a bomb <later they find out it's a propaganda bomb> while Henry Blake is reading the instructions over a bullhorn. That was a great episode. I will look for it on youtube.com tonight and post to my blog <http://prhmusic.blogspot.com> if I find it.
*The entire MASH series is going for $119 at Best Buy (down from $199!) It's taking a lot of self-restraint to plop down the $ for it. I never liked the show as a kid but I appreciate the show now.
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David Downing wrote:
Kind of like the instructions for pulling the pin on a hand grenade and throwing the grenade that have a warning *after* the whole procedure that you only have ten seconds to perform the operation.
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