I know you got it. But. For anyone who was me. I went so many years not getting the Tinker Tailor reference. I “read” the book years ago after seeing the movie

I know you got it. But. For anyone who was me. I went so many years not getting the Tinker Tailor reference. I “read” the book years ago after seeing the movie. Yep. It’s a variation of the rhyme we learned as “eenie-meenie miney-mo.” It names jobs, and replaces the schoolyard rhyme’s 4th job with “spy.” That version actually makes sense, while the version I grew up with sounds like the gibberish of which we accuse the brits ;) (I’m sure all of that was clear in the book and the movie. But I know I just helped at least one other person with ADD!) Edit: I’ll save you the google. It’s “tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor” in 1930’s UK schoolboy parlance. That’s the clever bit that wooshed me