unscripted speech

[George Thompson]

I very vaguely remember a dirty joke, the point of which was "lickety-
split" = "cunnilingus".  If heard, then from my college years, early
60s; if read, then probably in one of Gershom Legman's books.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cohen, Gerald Leonard" <gcohen at UMR.EDU>
Date: Sunday, September 4, 2005 8:50 pm
Subject: Re: unscripted speech

> Several years ago I saw a movie on TV--I don't remember its name,
> but it was about a man in prison who could run extremely fast and
> was always doing laps around the prison yard. He was brought to
> the attention of a track coach, who then trained him for races
> against the best track stars. He would have won if he had received
> permission from the prison board to participate, but he failed to
> show the necessary remorse for his crime and wound up speaking in
> anger to the board.
>    Anyway,  IIRC, the prisoners all had nicknames (given by the
> other prisoners), and I distinctly remember that the nickname of
> this track-star prisoner was "Lickety-Split."
>    If there was anything off-color about the nickname, evidently
> no one told the movie director.
>
> Gerald Cohen
>
> > ----------
>        Original message from Jonathan Lighter, Sept. 3, 2005:
>
> > Since that time, though, I've noticed that it is almost never
> used in public. ...
> >
> > If they find out about our avoidance of "lickety-split," they'll
> laugh their asses off.
> >
> > JL
> >
>