'Vatican Cameos' is a phrase used in BBC's Sherlock when Sherlock is about to open Irene Adler's safe. The phrase first originated in World War 2. It was used when a non-military person, who was armed (gun or knife) entered a British military base. The phrase was a signal for everyone duck out of the line of fire. Sherlock knew that John, being a military man, would recognise this phrase and duck out of the way of the gun in the safe. It is not a code phrase which Sherlock and John coordinated as a safe word. Very clever, don't you think?
*Person walks into room with gun*
"Vatican Cameos"
*everyone ducks*
Il Vaticano is a specialchess move, which allows bishops two squares apart to take what's in between them. It's denoted B-O-O-B in standard chess notation.
The name Varian is French for "variable", which means something not consistent or liable to change.
Varian: I don't like to change myself for any reason . . . except if something emotionally traumatizing happens to someone I really care about.
Rudiger: Skree, chirrrp, Grrrrr.
Varian: Your right, Rudiger. Like that would ever happen.
A variation of the Eiffel Tower in which the person in the middle is a young boy, and the two people on the outside are preferably, but not necessarily, priests.
Those twosex offenders teamed up and gave that boy the Vatican.