It's the weekend. And I'm not feeling particularly combative today. So let's start with a cool story.
I had never heard this. Absolutely, freaking amazing.
Before leaving for missions, British airmen were told that if they were captured, they should look for escape maps and kits in Monopoly boards and other games delivered by charity groups. They were told that "special edition" Monopoly sets would be marked with a red dot on the free parking space.
Watson said that in addition to the concealed compass, tools and maps, real bank notes were hidden under the fake money....
To make sure each set reached its destination, the secret service devised another code.
"Each game was pinpointed as to the camp it would go to," Orbanes said. To innocuously tag each board game, a period was added after different locations on the board.
A period after "Mayfair," for example, meant that the game was intended for Norway, Sweden and Germany.
