| You are an adventurer and come across two caves: one on the left and one on the right. One of the caves has treasures; the other, most certain doom. You see an imp passing by and ask which cave has the treasure. The imp said, “Two caves you came across. Many have failed to pick the right one. It contains treasure of many kinds. What is left, to tell, is the other cave, with terror and death lurking around.”
Which one should you pick? |
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The world economy ensures there are no weapons at all. A man signs up for his country’s army. He gets to training camp. The sergeant hands him a piece of wood shaped like a rifle, with a rubber bayonet on the end.
“Right, men! This is the new war tactics. You point your rifle at the enemy and say ‘bangety bang’! You poke your bayonet at the enemy and say ‘stabbity stab’”! The soldiers look at each other and shrug – WTH?
Days later, the men are sent to a battlefield. The enemy is massed on the other side – they too have wooden rifles with rubber bayonets. They start walking towards each other. The lines meet – the soldiers start pretend shooting and bayoneting. The words ‘bangety bang and stabbity stab’ ring out. Amazingly, men on both sides die in their thousands!!
Finally, amidst the corpses, our hero stands, stunned by all this. Suddenly, he sees a single unarmed enemy soldier walking slowly towards him across the bodies. As he gets close to him, the soldier uses his weapon – ‘bangety bang, stabbity stab’.
Nothing happens!!
The enemy soldier simply knocks over our hero, and walks slowly over him.
The hero hears the enemy muttering…
‘Tankety tank… tankety tank’.
| I alone am an intricate game A labyrinth and I are one and the same Add a letter and then I become Astonished, amused, and perplexed to some What am I? |
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