Code Phrases

Make up your own call-and response code phrases that secret agents might use to establish their identity when they first meet

Here's how Bond does it in From Russia With Love:




Here's my first effort:

Agent 1: "The oxen have ploughed the field"
Agent 2: "And the furrows are straight comrade!"
Agent 1: "Yes but the crows will get the seeds"

 

Agent 1: "Excuse me, have you the time?"
Agent 2: "I'm afraid not, but I do have inclination, maybe tomorrow? "
Agent 1: "It's okay I'll have my new watch by then"

 

a1: have you seen ms thatcher's cat?
a2: she caught a mouse over at the vicarage

 

Agent 1: "Do you know the way to San Jose?"
Agent 2: "I'm not sure, I've been away so long. I may go wrong and lose my way "
Agent 1: "I guess that's what happens when you break the law"

 

A/ "Have you seen the sunset-it's beautiful".

B/"Not as beautiful as the correct password!"

A/"oops".

 

Agent 1: "The eels are slippery today"
Agent 2: "So are my eggs"
Agent 1: "Then do not try the oysters"

 

Agent 1: "What's that coming over the hill?"
Agent 2: "Is it a Monster?"
Agent 3: "No I'm not, - it's just the way I walk "

 

Agent1/ "This coffee is weak"
Agent2/"Maybe you need more coffee,less milk''
Agent1/ ''But my flies have come undone-I am protruding!"
Agent2 "What's that got to do with coffee?"
Agent1 "Nothing...just hoped you'd be impressed''....

 

Agent 1: "Do I know you?"
Agent 2: "Yes, I can tell by the way you use your walk, you;re a woman's man?"
Agent 3:"Never mind the talk, you should see me dancing"

 

"there is nothing more useless then a door with a voice lock"

and the automatic door unlocks itself and swings open

(thom baker's doctor at the panopticon)

1>"have you found a cure for chronic hysteresis?"
2>"i've reversed the polarity of the neutron flow"

 

Agent 1: "Am I right in thinking you are the one to see for some pictures with naked ladies on?"
Agent 2: "Yes, I have many "
Agent 1:"Good I'll have a dozen"
Agent 2: "There you go"
Agent 1: "Hang on what are these?"
Agent 2: "Greek Urns - you did say you wanted pitchers, - didn't you?"

 

Agent 1: "What's your greatest weakness?"
Agent 2: "Interpreting the semantics of a question but ignoring the pragmatics."
Agent 1: "Could you give an example?"
Agent 2: "Yes I could."

[Stolen from Twitter]

 

Agent 1: "Have you got the time?"
Agent 2: "Yes, if you've got the energy"
Agent 1: "... Very funny, but what I actually wanted to know, was the indefinite continued progress of existence and events that occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future."

 

A1/ "Have you seen the snow in Moscow?"

A2/"Yes. It was deeper than my thoughts".

A3/"How typical typical. I get the thicky again!"