DEA Slang

[Mullins, Bill]

The original cite didn't have any etymology.  But the Mikey cereal
connection was so obvious to me, it didn't seem worth mentioning in the
original post.


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> Sounds right.
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> JL
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> Jim Parish <jparish at SIUE.EDU> wrote:
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> Wilson Gray asked:
> > Does anyone else remember the cereal commercials featuring a very
> > picky kid named "Mikey"? If Mikey would eat it, the cereal
> *had* to be
> > good!
>
> To draw the connection to the DEA slang even closer, the
> commercials began (as I recall) with two young boys examining
> a box of Life Cereal.
>
> "I'm not gonna try it."
> "*I'm* not gonna try it."
> "Let's get Mikey to try it!"
>
> Jim Parish
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