ick [Was: to bogart]

[Sam Clements]

Iggy Mudd wasn't Sky King's sidekick, but rather the sidekick of Captain
Midnight.  Jeff was the name of King's nephew.

...and don't forget to tell Mom to buy Ovaltine!

Sam Clements
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>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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>> 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.?
>>
>> -Wilson
>>
>> 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:
>>>>>
>>>>>>"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
>>>
>>> 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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>> -Wilson
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