ick [Was: to bogart]

[Bill Palmer]

I was going to precede my post with "if memory serves", and obviously it
didin't serve re: Icky vis a vis C. Midnite.  However, I'm holding my ground
on Penny, Sky King's  niece.

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