[Fictionary] Kicky-wicky answers

[David Randall]

Dear All,

Jacob‹a pox on the man, riddled with the French measles, born under the sign
of Mercury, his apothecary hath made free with his member, and silver-tipped
it for a warning to all harlots, not to take his silver, an¹ they wish to
preserve themselves to earn more silver yet; but silver for silver is the
usual exchange in this our fleshly world‹is the winner.  Take it away,
Jacob!

David

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kicky-wicky: (n.) a token of love sent in a long-distance relationship.

The Winter¹s Tale, IV.iv.458 [Camillo]: ³Their encounters, though not
personal, have been royally attorneyed with interchange of kicky-wickies,
loving embassies, that they have seemed to be together, though absent.²

PIERRE: Linda (2) + Eric (1) = 3 points

Melissa: Fails the scansion test; also, a weird word in such a formal
speech.  No.  But makes the most sense as a straight definition.
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kicky-wicky: (adj.)  badly mended, as trousers.

King Lear, I.iv.31 [Fool]: ³A drunkard tailor sews his breeches kicky-wicky;
so thou in statecraft, I in folly, God¹a¹mercy on us all.²

LINDA (with quotation added by yours truly): Eric (2) + Jacob (1) + Hutch
(2) + Judith (1) + Pierre (1) = 7 points

Eric: "Thus though its humor doth appear the lesser / So reason liketh this
one all the better."

Hutch: kick" for leg, "wick" for tattered and turned into a rhyming slang

Melissa; Plausible Shakespeare, actually, though a bit straightforward for
the Fool, but a suspect definition.  No.

Elliott: Oooh, I can sort of see an etymology ... as the perpetrator no
doubt intended.  Nice, but no points.
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kicky-wicky: (n.) [jocular] girlfriend, wife

All¹s Well that Ends Well, II.iii.278 [Parolles]: He wears his honour in a
box unseen That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home.

SHAKESPEARE¹S WORDS: Jacob (2) + Hutch (1) + Melissa (1) = 4 points

Melissa: Nice Shakespeare, weird definition.
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kicky-wicky: (n,) involuntary muscle movements characteristic of late-stage
syphilis.  

The Second Part of King Henry IV, II.iv.123 [Falstaff]: A coward still thou
art.  Thy feet would run, I see, or else 'tis merely kicky-wicky makes thee
twitch.

JACOB: Judith (2) + Melissa (2) + Elliott (2) + Pierre (2) + Linda (1) +
Correct Guess (2) = 11 points

Hutch: This is SOOOOOO tempting, but I'm out of points. Give this one an
imaginary tie-breaker point

Melissa: Falstaff would totally say "kicky-wicky."  It seems that I have to
give this one the 2.

Elliott: Two points for hideous plausibility.
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kicky-wicky: (adj.)  politically sharp, exciting, and effective.

Julius Caesar, III.ii.73 [Mark Antony]: "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend
me your ears.  I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.  The evil that men
do lives after them.  The good is oft interred with their bones.  So let it
be with Caesar.  His kicky-wicky rule over our land is ended, and will be
seen no more."

JUDITH: Elliott (1) = 1 point

Hutch: Almost tempting, but I'm pretty sure I *don't* remember the word in
that soliloquy

Melissa: Least  Effort Expended Award.

Elliott: One point for audacity.

Pierre: This passage is often enough quoted that I doubt that there are any
kicky-wickies in it.
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kicky-wicky: (adj.) referring to midnight.

Pericles, I.i.14 [Gower, in Prologue]: ³Kicky-wicky hours and all is very
strange when Antiochus causes lives to disarrange.²

HUTCH: Correct Guess (1) = 1 point

Melissa: For no good reason, I once memorized Gower's opening speech, and I
have an abiding fondness for Enter Pericles, Wet, so I know this isn't it.
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MELISSA: Correct Guess (1) = 1 point
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GENERAL COMMENTS:

Hutch: Delightful bits of [faux] Shakespeariana. Everyone's 'quote' was
well-written.

Elliott: Oh, what a splendid round!  But I am stymied.  There are two ways
to write  Fakespeare.  1.  From scratch.  2.  By substituting "kicky-wicky"
into a genuine quotation.  I want to give points to reward success at #1,
but how can I tell that I'm not being spoofed by #2?  I cannot!  But if I
were to judge only the definitions, and ignore the quotations, I would make
of this an ordinary round.  What am I to do?  Oh, hell, I'll just vote for
the ones that make me laugh.
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