Oh, come on!
My last Wikipedia safari reveals that the first director of MI6, who espoused the use of semen as a field-expedient invisible ink ("Every man carries his own stylo."), was named Mansfield Smith-Cumming.
Labels: Field Expedients, History, Truth is stranger than fiction
3 Comments:
HAH! Nice aptonym.
Humm. Well, THAT was informative. Are you finished, or is more data forth-, uh, I mean, in the offing?
Ah. Miss Lily, you had a typo.
You meant "aptronym," a term I hadn't heard before.
Seems like it ought to be "aptonym," as the names are apt.
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