Re: Ghurkas

Brian Bilderback wrote:

>I once heard an apocryphal story about a Gurkha game in WW2, involving 
>slitting an enemy sentry's bootlaces without alerting him to your
presence.
>Can your acquaintance confirm/deny such?

The variant I've heard had the Allied troops ordered to tie their
bootlaces 
with a special knot so the Gurkhas would recognize them as friendly (by 
feeling the knot in pitch dark) and refrain from slitting their
*throats* 
(or, more likely, push a kukri up their groins) :-/

Later,

Oerjan
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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