lickety-split/-quick (was Re: unscripted speech)

Amy West medievalist at W-STS.COM
Wed Sep 7 16:20:44 UTC 2005


I wonder if this is this related to a self-correction that I noticed
in Ray Nagin's rant on Air America. He would say "lickety-" and then
there'd be a slight pause and then say "quick" when I was expecting
"split".

I apologize if this has already been mentioned. I've had to dump some
digests unread.

---Amy West

>
>Date:    Tue, 6 Sep 2005 10:35:25 -0400
>From:    George Thompson <george.thompson at NYU.EDU>
>Subject: Re: unscripted speech
>
>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.



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