Asp

From Plastic Tub

"Beauty -- An Asp!"

- password used by various AA groups to differentiate invited guests from clampers.

"My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?"

-- Letter from Galileo Galilei to Johannes Kepler.