Dear David:
I can just see a WWI artillerist calling in his fire commands, as portrayed by Peter Sellers in a pickelhaube:
"No, seriously, Herman, there really IS an enormous tricycle advancing on our position. Please stand by for fire co-ordinates (all in Morse code, of course)".
"Tricycle, you know, tricycle, that three-wheeled thing you used to hurtle on, on the Vienerstrasse, but ever so much larger!"
"Fire for effect, co-ordinates 65443 - 79812!"
"Em, correction, repeat, correction: Stand down from fire command -- the bugger seems to have got its front prong rather stuck in a trench, and looks to be engaged in shooting off its own rear wheels in some sort of fit of pique. Hmm, most curious."
"No further fire support required, we'll have a couple of landsers chuck in a grenade or two. Thanks, Herman, Out. "
Russ
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