[Ads-l] Mike Hunt

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Green’s Dictionary of Slang does not have an entry for “Mike Hunt”,
but the name does appear in an 1833 citation under the entry for “soak
v.1”. The name apparently occurred in a song title.
https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/ns4yvjy

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1833 [UK]  ‘Job Halls And Mike Hunt’ in Lummy Chaunter 83: In the
Feathers you’d find him soaking with Mike Hunt.
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Google Books has a pertinent songbook, but only snippets are visible.

Title: Bawdy Songbooks of the Romantic Period: Items Published by
William West (1836-1842)
Editor: Ed Cray
Publisher: Routledge
https://books.google.com/books?id=Jvx6EAAAQBAJ&

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I have travelled all over town, Mike Hunt is my friend

Mike Hunt has for years been much admir'd, Great fame Mike Hunt has in
the world acquir'd

Mike Hunt was known full well, To every dashing swell

Have you seen Mike Hunt?

Job Halls and Mike Hunt
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Garson

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 12:49 PM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Quoted as being in print in 1841 (although the date for the quoted work is variously cited throughout the 1840s).
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> "Even The Swell's Night Guide [1841], a kind of Ladies' Directory, has: 'The dance was followed up by an out-and-out song by Mike Hunt, whose name was called out in a way that must not be mentioned to ears polite.'"
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> https://archive.org/details/mrsgrundystudies00frye/page/47/mode/1up?q=%22mike+hunt%22
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> Later, more reliable cites:
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> 1971  University of Massachusetts Index [yearbook] 461
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> OHMAN, John W.; So. Grafton; Marketing; Marketing Club; Mike Hunt fan club, Pres.; Scuba Club; Bridge Club; Bowling Club; Intramurals.
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> https://archive.org/details/index1971univ/page/461/mode/1up?q=%22mike+hunt%22
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> 1973 Arbutus [Indiana University yearbook] 366
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> Phi Delta Theta
> Front Row: John Havlichek, Demetrius Mandonous, John Sikora, Mom Black, Dog Grunson, Stephen York, Marc Granson, Ernie Banks, Deacon Moleson, Norm Peacock, Mark Williams. Second Row: Jim Koday, Scott Etherington, Alan Smith, Steve Kappes, Mike Carney, Hooter Hey, Randy Stern, Steve Williams, Herb, Thomas Eagleton, World Records, Huck Fer, Mike Canoon, Spider Koday, Maynard G. Mole-Man, George Graessle, Wayne Gas-pan, Mike Fitzgibbons, W. Brent Dill, Rick Nelson, Toot Moor, Cool McCool, Brian Crowder, Jay Goodwin, Mike Hunt, Richard Butkus, “Newton”, Sed, Peter Gozinya, Phantom, Barth Anderson.
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> [Note names of athletes (John Havlicheck, Ernie Banks, Richard Butkus), politicians (Thomas Eagleton), and other contrived names (Hooter Hey, World Records, Maynard G. Mole-man, Toot Moor, Peter Gozinya).  "Peter Gozinya" is a new on me.]
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> https://archive.org/details/arbutus1973indi/page/366/mode/1up?q=%22mike+hunt%22
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> There are many people named "Mike Hunt" in college yearbooks and student newspapers.  Very few are so obviously from context referencing the pun, but I suspect that in most cases, whoever provided the name to the author was snickering when he did so.
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> And while we're at it, "Peter Gozinya" can be antedated to Phi Gamma Delta in the 1968 University of Indiana Arbutus:
> https://archive.org/details/LampoonArchive1972/1972_04/page/n31/mode/1up?q=%22peter+gozinya%22
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> continuing a tradition that goes back to the 1958 Arbutus, in which one of the Phi Gams was identified as "Jack Mehoff":
> https://archive.org/details/arbutus1958indi/page/427/mode/1up?q=%22jack+mehoff%22
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> And, your humble correspondent confesses to inserting the name of "Pat Myweenie" into his German class picture in his 1979 high school yearbook.
> https://archive.org/details/etc1979mcga/page/188/mode/1up?q=myweenie
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> > From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of George Thompson
> >  <george.thompson at NYU.EDU>
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> > ["Mike Hunt" cite, July 10 1842]
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