Shave and a Haircut: Difference between revisions

** Used as a secret knock ("The <s>Hairdressers</s> Barber-Surgeon's Knock") in ''[[Discworld|Making Money]]''.

*** And naturally, at the start of the Music With Rocks In story ''[[Discworld/Soul Music|Soul Music]]'', "Shave and a haircut, two pence" is the very first thing the drummer plays.

* According to John McCain's autobiography, Vietnamese people are incapable of tapping out Shave and a Haircut, and he and other American POWs would use it to hail each other through walls.

** It's not so much that they were incapable, but that they were unfamiliar with the Western ditty. One POW would tape "shave and a haircut", and the other would answer with "two bits". If the answer was "shave and a haircut" repeated back to him, the POW would know it was actually his captor trying to get information.