Subject: re: Getting Snickered

[Laurence Horn]

>Jerry E Kane <Jerryekane at AOL.COM> wrote:
>  >>>
>  I just heard the expression on the Fox news channel.  When a prisoner at
>Gitmo throws feces on a guard it is called "getting snickered".
>  <<<
>
>Might the term come from the chocolate candy bar called Snickers(tm)?
>
Are we assuming (I guess I am) that this is indeed an eggcorn in
which "get snookered" is reanalyzed by influence of the name of the
candy bar?

L