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Subject:Re: Re[2]: Why are we excluded AND Grammar From:"Huber, Mike" <mrhuber -at- SOFTWARE -dot- ROCKWELL -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 5 Jun 1998 15:23:04 -0400
Saw that on a MASH episode.
But it seems to me that, if I were defusing bombs, I would, as so many
instruction sheets suggest, read the entire procedure first.
Still, it's a good lesson for us to remember.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Warren [SMTP:David -dot- Warren -at- NEXTEL -dot- COM]
>
> And then you have the following example I loved to use in my Software
> Documentation class. Supposedly, it is from an infamous US Army
> WW2-era translation of an Italian bomb defusing procedure:
>
> "Find and cut the wire with blue insulation leading to the serratated
> barrel nut. Then find and cut the green wire attached to the timing
> assembly,
>
> (page break)
>
> but FIRST...."
>
> Supposedly, several munitions experts never got to turn the page.
>
> Evidently it worked great in Italian.
>
