Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cepu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrba!cepu!scw From: scw@cepu.UUCP (Stephen C. Woods) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Yet Another Net Slogan, sayings Message-ID: <349@cepu.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Sep-84 12:03:24 EDT Article-I.D.: cepu.349 Posted: Fri Sep 28 12:03:24 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Sep-84 03:16:00 EDT References: <10600171@uiucdcs.UUCP> <1574@proper.UUCP> <5032@yale.ARPA><391@hogpd.UUCP> <274@ll1.UUCP> Reply-To: scw@cepu.UUCP (Stephen C. Woods) Organization: VA Wadsworth Med. Center; LA CA Lines: 42 In article <274@ll1.UUCP> cej@ll1.UUCP (Chuck Jones MMOCS) writes: >[Ahh, war... Oh...] > > How about the W.W. II Army commander (who's name escapes me, >but just ask my brother, he'll tell you) who was cut-off by the >Jappenese on a small island. He and his men were making a last >stand, and he knew that supplies nor personnel were ever going to >make it through. > > When asked over the radio if there was anything they could >send him, he replied "Send more Japs!" > > He, however, lost. > >...ihnp4!mgnetp!ll1!cej Chuck Jones Close, but no cigar. (1)It was a Marine. (2)His name (as I recall) was Major Deveraux(sp?) (3)It was Wake Island. (4)The 'send more Japs' was padding put after the message to make the message up to a standard length.The actual contents of the message was a report that the defenders had beaten off the first attempt at a landing. Another example of misplaced padding was a message sent to Hasley during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Hasley had taken TF 58.1 (the fast carrier group) and TF 58.1.5 (the Fast Battleships) off after the Japanese Carrier TF (a semi decoy, they had very few planes),the major Japanese strike force (a Battleship/Cruser group) was approching the landing beaches (at Leyte) and the Admrial commanding the landing force wanted to know where his Battleship support force was. INTO THE VALLEY OF DEATH [marker] WHERE IS TASK FORCE 58.1.5 [marker] ALL THE WORLD WONDERED When the message was decoded, the decoding officer neglected to strip off the trailing 'ALL THE WORLD WONDERED'. This produced ,naturally, a great uproar, with hurt feelings on both sides. -- Stephen C. Woods (VA Wadsworth Med Ctr./UCLA Dept. of Neurology) uucp: { {ihnp4, uiucdcs}!bradley, hao, trwrb, sdcrdcf}!cepu!scw ARPA: cepu!scw@ucla-cs location: N 34 3' 9.1" W 118 27' 4.3"