Re: Ghurkas

I would believe either variant.  I also heard a story of a time that a 
British officer, feeling superior, haughtily instructed a Gurkha Sgt. 
heading out on patrol to bring him a German officer's watch.  reportedly
the 
Gurkha complied, but the watch was still on a wrist.

Brian

"The Irish are the only race of people on Earth for which psychoanalysis
is 
of no use."

				 - S. Freud

>From: Oerjan Ohlson <oerjan.ohlson@telia.com>
>Reply-To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>Subject: Re: Ghurkas
>Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 07:01:30 +0100
>
>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
>
>"Life is like a sewer.
>  What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
>-Hen3ry
>

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