> On 12/10/08, Rick Womer, discombobulated, unleashed:
> 
> >The snake, lighthouse, and cottontail are my faves.
> 
> Since the Dawn of Man, I cannot see how this sequence of 
> words has ever
> before met up in the same sentence - in any language, anywhere in
the
> world. Congrats on a first Rick.
> 

it was Sidney Reilly's preferred pass phrase for the agents he ran in
Baku during the 1920s, and passed into spy lore as a way for agents of
CI5 (such as Rick, obviously) to identify themselves to others without
anyone else finding out. I thought everyone knew that.

Bob


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