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So I wouldn't lose any sleep...
Authored by: squib on Thursday, January 10 2013 @ 03:35 PM EST
Yes, I get your point. Hydraulic ram becomes 'water sheep' and 'out of sight, out of mind' becomes ' invisible idiot'...

My point was more serious.

This was known during the second wold war.

“Most important of all, Martin had a letter personally signed by Lord Mountbatten which ended with a simple pun designed to trick the Germans into believing the Allied assault would be on Sardinia, 'Let me have him [Martin] back, please, as soon as the assault is over. He might bring some sardines with him; they are on points here!' “

http://www.guy-sports.com/humor/urban_myth/hoax_military.htm

Mountbatten was asked to compose this himself. The reason was obvious. The Nazi’s held intercepted massages from Mountbatten and so a contrived missive composed by others would not have rung true. For the WWII historian, the Sardinia bit was very much a contemporary joke. Before the war, most sardines came to the UK from Portugal -not Sardinia. To conserve the balance of payments, this import was stopped immediately on the outbreak of war. Anyone in the UK of a ''certain age'' will confirm that Pilchards ( sardines) was a missed delicacy and they knew where they came from (just as they knew that rancid wale meat offered during the times of war time rationing came from Russia - yuck). Only Mountbatten could make such a faux par and get a way with it and that's what helped to make it so convincing. This missive was just not only signed by him but contained his unique style.

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