a drill sergeant marched up and down in front of some new recruits. "right, you sons of bitches" he said, "today you are going to learn how to shoot. unfortunately, the army is underfunded right now, so you will instead be using these broom handles as guns. now what i want you to do is point the broom handle at the targets and shout "bangity bang"." so the recruits practiced this for the rest of the day.
the next day, the lesson was learning about bayonettes. "right you little spacewasters, the amy still cant afford to equip you with the rifle extention, so what youre going to do is tie these combes" he held up a bag of combes "to your broom handles, poke at the sandbag, and yell "stabbity stab". " and so this was what the soldiors did that day.
the next day the recruits were called up to the front line, still with the broomstick training weapons. they enter the battle, and proceed to point their brooms at the enemy and yell "bangity bang". much to their surprise, tthis works, and the enemy gets mown down.
the battle progresses, with the casualties being high on either side. the men pointed their broom handles at the enemy and yelled bangity bang, and if the enemy got too close they yelled stabbity stab.
the batte raged until there was just 2 men left, 1 on either side. a recruit pointed at the enemy and yelled "bangity bang". it had no effect, and the enemy advanced towards him. he came within range of the comb, and so the soldior yelled "stabbity stab". still no effect, and the enemy soldior continued until the recruit was knocked over. the soldior couldnt understand this until he heard the enemy muttering under his breath "tankity tank, tankity tank, tankity tank"