“You gotta admire these guys-—they got away with it.
Reminds me of the guy signing for the deaf at Mandela’s funeral.
Some scams are very funny.”
There was an American in WW2 that convinced the army he could speak Japanese and they paid him to create a basic phrase book for US troops. He did it by going to a library and checking out an English/Japanese dictionary. Some of his phrases were utter nonsense.
“There was an American in WW2 that convinced the army he could speak Japanese and they paid him to create a basic phrase book for US troops. He did it by going to a library and checking out an English/Japanese dictionary. Some of his phrases were utter nonsense.”
I hadn’t heard that one. He probably earned a good chunk of taxpayer money.
I always wonder what kind of mind thinks these things up.
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