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Subject: Further 'legends'

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Dave P.

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Date Posted: 19:04:57 05/13/05 Fri

Here's another little 'legend' for you to ponder over and decide on the truth of. I was told, as a boy soldier, that the reason why the British 'Tommy' always lace their boots using the straight across method, as opposed to criss-cross, is that, during the war in the far east (against the Japanese) the Gurkha soldiers would 'pick-off' the nips by, surreptitiously, feeling their laces and whispering, in English, "You Johnny?". If they felt the criss-crossed laces and the answer, to the question wasn't in the affirmative, damned quick, they would silently cut the throat of the wearer of the laces. Nice little story but true or false?................

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: Further 'legends'	Jim Martin	21:40:03 05/13/05 Fri
Re: Further 'legends' -- Dave P., 23:07:10 05/13/05 Fri