frickinfracker

[Mark Mandel]

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com>
wrote:

    Really senior linguists with 'Net access will recall that "Frick &
Frack"
     were a team of Swiss ice-skaters in the original Ice Follies from
1940:

Whence "Click and Clack, the Tappet Bros." for Car Talk's Tom and Ray
Magliozzi.

m a m

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