Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 11:10:30 -0500 (EST)
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Re: Lieutenanr Pigeon




On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Andy wrote:

> Do we have any Japanese a-listers? I was wondering if they had some
> self-marinading suicide pigeons that would pluckily deliver the message then
> plunge into red wine and baste themselves to the greater glory of Hirohito.

The U$ had bats with tiny incenderaries attached to their legs so we could
drop them over Japanese cities, whereupon the bats would roost in the
attics of those paper and wood buildings and, um, ignomiuously ignite.
There's an url for this story somehwere in the archives.

Wow.  Do bats roost?



carpo