ick [Was: to bogart]

[Bill Palmer]

I believe, in early 50s TV,  Sky King's sidekick was Ichabod Mudd,
affectionately known as Icky.  Seems to me SK's niece, Penny was part of the
group, too.

Bill Palmer

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Subject: Re: ick [Was: to bogart]


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> Didn't Captain Midnight or some other radio-&-funnybook hero of my
> youth have a comic-relief sidekick named "Icky"? Was it the guy who
> wore the ice-hockey uniform and who has since been revived and
> horribly changed by one of the current comic-book biggies, a la
> Plastic Man, Captain America & Bucky, Prince Nemo the Submariner
> (whose seems to be known as the "Sub Marie ner," these days), The
> Flash, Green Lantern, Norge, The Human Torch & Toro, the Green (om
> mane padme hum) Lama, etc., etc.?
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> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Joel S. Berson<Berson at att.net> wrote:
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>> At 7/14/2009 04:25 PM, Alison Murie wrote:
>>>On Jul 14, 2009, at 2:17 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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>>>>At 7/13/2009 05:31 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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>>>>>"And should a monkey insist on bogarting its millipede, the other
>>>>>monkey simply rubs its body against the anointed one's fur to ick up
>>>>>some stray secretions."
>>>>
>>>>I just noticed this while deleting old mail. Â "ick" up should be
>>>>"pick" up.
>>>>
>>>>Eggcorn? Â Freudian-like slip?
>>>>
>>>>Joel
>>>~~~~~~~~
>>>Oh, heck! Here I thought it was a clever nonce word.
>>>AM
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>> Not nonce -- as a noun, dates from 1947 as "2. Something sticky,
>> congealed, or disgusting." Â Although not in the OED as a verb ...
>>
>> The Freudian part of this is that in my youth I dated a girl whose
>> initials were I.C.K. Â Her nickname, of course, was "Icky".
>>
>> Joel
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