Quickie

[Terry Lynn Irons]

At lunch after church this morning a group of us were talking and I
remarked that it is yet difficult for me to say "living and the dead" in
place of "the quick and the dead" in the Nicene Creed.  My comment led
to a discussion of the term "quick," with which newer members of the
congregation were unfamiliar.  After an enlightening clarification by a
visitor from Berea, one member of our congregation, a dentist by trade,
recounted for us the story of a patient who had come in recently
complaining that he had a tooth that was "quickie."   Wondering what
kind of quickie the patient had in mind and assuring herself that
nothing of the sort was going to happen in her office, she inquired of
the symptoms the patient suffered.  It seems that whenever he ate
anything, a sharp pain ran into one of his back teeth, which he termed
"quickie."

Has anyone else encountered this use of the term?  What is its
distribution?  (I wonder if it is DARE IV, whose arrival I anxiously
await.)


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Virtually, Terry
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