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** A milder example in ''[[Recap/TintinTheBlueLotus The Blue Lotus]]'': Thompson & Thomson are reluctantly sent to arrest Tinin in Manchuria, bearing a warrant in Chinese that neither of them can read. When they present the warrant to the local police superintendent, the man reads it, then roars with laughter and has the Thompsons thrown out of the station, and tells Tintin he is free to go. Outside, Tintin's friend Chang explains that he switched the warrant with a paper he wrote himself, reading, ''"In case you haven't noticed, we are lunatics and this proves it."''

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** A milder example in ''[[Recap/TintinTheBlueLotus The Blue Lotus]]'': Thompson & Thomson are reluctantly sent to arrest Tinin Tintin in Manchuria, bearing a warrant in Chinese that neither of them can read. When they present the warrant to the local police superintendent, the man reads it, then roars with laughter and has the Thompsons thrown out of the station, and tells Tintin he is free to go. Outside, Tintin's friend Chang explains that he switched the warrant with a paper he wrote himself, reading, ''"In case you haven't noticed, we are lunatics and this proves it."''
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* The opening of ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' doesn't quite match this to the letter, but the idea is the same: [=R2D2=] and [=C3P0=] are sent to Jabba's palace with a message that they are being traded to Jabba, much to the surprise of [=C3P0=] (but not R2). This is subverted when it turns out to be all part of their plan to rescue Han.

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* The opening of ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' doesn't quite match this to the letter, but the idea is the same: [=R2D2=] R2-D2 and [=C3P0=] C-3PO are sent to Jabba's palace with a message that they are being traded to Jabba, much to the surprise of [=C3P0=] C-3PO (but not R2). This is subverted when it turns out to be all part of their plan to rescue Han.



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* An [[UrbanLegends Urban Legend]] from the late days of WWII Berlin, when food was getting scarce, has it that a young boy was paid to deliver an envelope to a butcher shop, after being told strictly not to open it himself. The boy got curious and suspiscious, and opened it anyway. It contained a note with only one sentence: "[[HumanResources Here is the veal.]]"

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* An [[UrbanLegends Urban Legend]] from the late days of WWII Berlin, when food was getting scarce, has it that a young boy was paid to deliver an envelope to a butcher shop, after being told strictly not to open it himself. The boy got curious and suspiscious, suspicious, and opened it anyway. It contained a note with only one sentence: "[[HumanResources Here is the veal.]]"

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