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<FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'>Dear All,<BR>
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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, an’ 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!<BR>
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kicky-wicky: (n.) a token of love sent in a long-distance relationship.<BR>
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<I>The Winter’s Tale</I>, IV.iv.458 [Camillo]: “Their encounters, though not personal, have been royally attorneyed with interchange of kicky-wickies, loving embassies, that they have seemed to be together, though absent.”<BR>
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PIERRE: Linda (2) + Eric (1) = 3 points<BR>
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Melissa: Fails the scansion test; also, a weird word in such a formal speech. No. But makes the most sense as a straight definition.<BR>
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kicky-wicky: (adj.) badly mended, as trousers.<BR>
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<I>King Lear</I>, I.iv.31 [Fool]: “A drunkard tailor sews his breeches kicky-wicky; so thou in statecraft, I in folly, God’a’mercy on us all.”<BR>
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LINDA (with quotation added by yours truly): Eric (2) + Jacob (1) + Hutch (2) + Judith (1) + Pierre (1) = 7 points<BR>
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Eric: "Thus though its humor doth appear the lesser / So reason liketh this one all the better."<BR>
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Hutch: kick" for leg, "wick" for tattered and turned into a rhyming slang<BR>
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Melissa; Plausible Shakespeare, actually, though a bit straightforward for the Fool, but a suspect definition. No.<BR>
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Elliott: Oooh, I can sort of see an etymology ... as the perpetrator no doubt intended. Nice, but no points.<BR>
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kicky-wicky: (n.) [jocular] girlfriend, wife<BR>
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<I>All’s Well that Ends Well</I>, II.iii.278 [Parolles]: He wears his honour in a box unseen That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home.<BR>
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SHAKESPEARE’S WORDS: Jacob (2) + Hutch (1) + Melissa (1) = 4 points<BR>
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Melissa: Nice Shakespeare, weird definition. <BR>
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kicky-wicky: (n,) involuntary muscle movements characteristic of late-stage syphilis. <BR>
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<I>The Second Part of King Henry IV, </I>II.iv.123 [Falstaff]: A coward still thou art. Thy feet would run, I see, or else 'tis merely kicky-wicky makes thee twitch.<BR>
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JACOB: Judith (2) + Melissa (2) + Elliott (2) + Pierre (2) + Linda (1) + Correct Guess (2) = 11 points<BR>
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Hutch: This is SOOOOOO tempting, but I'm out of points. Give this one an imaginary tie-breaker point<BR>
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Melissa: Falstaff would totally say "kicky-wicky." It seems that I have to give this one the 2.<BR>
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Elliott: Two points for hideous plausibility.<BR>
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kicky-wicky: (adj.) politically sharp, exciting, and effective. <BR>
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<I>Julius Caesar</I>, 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."<BR>
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JUDITH: Elliott (1) = 1 point<BR>
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Hutch: Almost tempting, but I'm pretty sure I *don't* remember the word in that soliloquy<BR>
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Melissa: Least Effort Expended Award.<BR>
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Elliott: One point for audacity.<BR>
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Pierre: This passage is often enough quoted that I doubt that there are any kicky-wickies in it.<BR>
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kicky-wicky: (adj.) referring to midnight. <BR>
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<I>Pericles</I>, I.i.14 [Gower, in Prologue]: “Kicky-wicky hours and all is very strange when Antiochus causes lives to disarrange.”<BR>
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HUTCH: Correct Guess (1) = 1 point<BR>
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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.<BR>
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MELISSA: Correct Guess (1) = 1 point<BR>
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GENERAL COMMENTS:<BR>
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Hutch: Delightful bits of [faux] Shakespeariana. Everyone's 'quote' was well-written.<BR>
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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.</SPAN></FONT></FONT>
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