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If you don't draw yours, I won't draw mine. A police officer, working in the small town that he lives in, focusing on family and shooting and coffee, and occasionally putting some people in jail.

Friday, February 15, 2008

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.

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3 Comments:

At Friday, February 15, 2008 5:47:00 AM, Blogger The Lily said...

HAH! Nice aptonym.

 
At Friday, February 15, 2008 8:55:00 AM, Blogger JPG said...

Humm. Well, THAT was informative. Are you finished, or is more data forth-, uh, I mean, in the offing?

 
At Friday, February 15, 2008 12:03:00 PM, Blogger Matt G said...

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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