Did you hear about the Telephone Man who was drafted into the Army? Seems he did well enough until he got out on the rifle range. As the sergeant approaches, he notices the Telephone man has his M-16 on full automatic and is blazing away firing rounds at a phenomenal rate. There's a rapidly growing pile of spent cartridges on the ground next to him.

The Sergeant lifts his field glasses to observe the accuracy of this over confident trainee, and sees absolutely no marks on the target. Now, Sergeants are painstakingly trained by Uncle Sam to build the confidence and ability of all boot camp soldiers, so the Sergeant sizes up the situation and acts:

"Soldier, you've wasted hundreds of perfectly good rounds of ammuntion and a thousand dollars of the taxpayer's good money and you haven't hit the target once! What in the [several arcane military terms deleted] is wrong here?"

Now the Telephone Man knows he must immediately analyse the situation and correct the problem. His years of technical training from Ma Bell are called into play:

The Telephone Man looks down the barrel of the gun. Then he carefully inspects the chamber. (Probably looking for the KS number so he can refer to the correct BSP for this weapon, no doubt.) He then rams a cartridge home into the chambers, arms the weapon, puts his finger over the end of the barrel and pulls the trigger. Of course, this neatly blows off the tip of his finger.

The Telephone Man inspects the end of his finger, and thinks for a moment... "Well, gee, Sarge, I don't rightly know what the problem is...but it must be at the other end, 'cause its leaving here just fine!"

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