[Ads-l] Stix Nix Hix Pix

[Jonathan Lighter]

Actually it was tickets.

"Rix" was rickets.

JL

On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 7:58 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> > On Jul 16, 2023, at 4:57 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> > _Variety_ also used "tix" for rickets....
> >
> > JL
>
> Obviously for those movies lacking Vitamin D.
>
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 9:31 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks for the ack, Garson. Good work.
> >>
> >> JL
> >>
> >> On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 8:42 PM ADSGarson O'Toole <
> >> adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> The Quote Investigator article on this topic is now available.
> >>>
> >>> Headline Origin: Sticks Nix Hick Pix
> >>> https://quoteinvestigator.medium.com/57d3470178ee
> >>> https://quoteinvestigator.com/2023/07/15/sticks-nix/
> >>>
> >>> Acknowledgement: Great thanks to Jonathan Lighter whose discussion of
> >>> this topic led QI to formulate this question and perform this
> >>> exploration. Lighter found citations for a variant and remarked on the
> >>> difference from the original.
> >>>
> >>> Feedback welcome
> >>> Garson
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 5:43 PM ADSGarson O'Toole
> >>> <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Jonathan Lighter  wrote:
> >>>>> _Variety_ (I believe) has also referred to film critics as "crix."
> >>>>> So....you could have
> >>>>>
> >>>>> "CRIX NIX CHIX PIX" as well as "HIX PIX NIX CRIX,"  "HIX, CHIX NIX
> >>> CRIX
> >>>>> PIX," and "CRIX NIX HIX FLIX CHIX."
> >>>>
> >>>> Here is an example with Crix:
> >>>>
> >>>> Date: May 9, 2005
> >>>> Periodical: Variety
> >>>> Volume 398, Issue 12
> >>>> Article: HBO, Variety forge 'Pix' pact
> >>>> Author: Anonymous
> >>>> Database: ProQuest
> >>>>
> >>>> [Begin excerpt]
> >>>> Titled "Crix Nix Hix Pix," the doc will be based on the book of the
> >>>> same name by Variety editor-in-chief Peter Bart and published by
> >>>> Miramax Books in conjunction with Variety's 100th anniversary.
> >>>> Title stems from one of Variety's most famous headlines ("Sticks Nix
> >>> Hick Pix").
> >>>> [End excerpt]
> >>>>
> >>>> I cannot find a match for that book title in WorldCat. So I think Bart
> >>>> changed the book name before publication.
> >>>> Garson
> >>>
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