[Ads-l] Mike Hunt

[Laurence Horn]

> On Jan 23, 2023, at 1:35 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> [Begin excerpt]
> 1833 [UK]  ‘Job Halls And Mike Hunt’ in Lummy Chaunter 83: In the
> Feathers you’d find him soaking with Mike Hunt.
> [End excerpt]
> 
> 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&
> 
> [Begin text selected from snippets]
> 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
> [End text from snippets]
> 
> 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).
>> 
>> "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.'"
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> OHMAN, John W.; So. Grafton; Marketing; Marketing Club; Mike Hunt fan club, Pres.; Scuba Club; Bridge Club; Bowling Club; Intramurals.
>> 
>> https://archive.org/details/index1971univ/page/461/mode/1up?q=%22mike+hunt%22
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>> 1973 Arbutus [Indiana University yearbook] 366
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> [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.]
>> 
>> https://archive.org/details/arbutus1973indi/page/366/mode/1up?q=%22mike+hunt%22
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> 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>
>>> 
>>> ["Mike Hunt" cite, July 10 1842]
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