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What does it mean to be 'licked'?

by terryterrywhite 11y ago

GuiA 11y ago
screwed, doomed, destined to fail.
jazzyb 11y ago
Slang for "beaten".
acangiano 11y ago
To be defeated. Example, "They Can't Lick Our Dick" (Nixon campaign slogan).
- RangerScience 11y ago
  Seriously?
  - ktRolster 11y ago
    Then there was this one: http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/357927/12493914/1306952455567/Don't+change+Dicks+in+the+midst+of+a+screw.jpg?token=v6FdWHv7W42U%2Fe7DcApWy5Dgcv4%3D http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/357927/12493914/130695...
    - krylon 11y ago
      That ... is easily the most unsual political ad I have seen in my life. To put it mildly. ;-) I am tempted to think it was satire? I mean, this would not have been very appealing to Nixon's target audience, would it?
      - labster 11y ago
        As a former satirist, I am 99% sure that is satire. Certainly a majority like that wouldn't be silent for long! This looks exactly like the kind of stuff I was putting up around my college for George W. Bush. Also, this sign has a great rhyme scheme; I almost feel like it needs "Burma Shave" at the bottom.
        krylon 11y ago
        > Certainly a majority like that wouldn't be silent for long! Now I have an image stuck in my head of a crowd chanting the slogan on that poster... Please, make it stop! ;-)
  - sjwright 11y ago
    https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/28350/are-these-real-badges-for-richard-nixons-1972-presidential-campaign https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/28350/are-these...
leoc 11y ago
'Lick' is an old slang term for 'blow', in the a-blow-was-struck sense. That's why the title of the Rolling Stones' greatest-hits album https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_Licks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_Licks is a three-way pun. 'Forty licks' is a proverbial term for a particular kind of corporal punishment: forty blows of the cane or whatever. Or see "The Return of Ulysses", the final chapter of The Wind in the Willows: http://www.cleavebooks.co.uk/grol/grahame/wind12.htm http://www.cleavebooks.co.uk/grol/grahame/wind12.htm

What does it mean to be 'licked'?

GuiA 11y ago

screwed, doomed, destined to fail.

jazzyb 11y ago

Slang for "beaten".

acangiano 11y ago

To be defeated. Example, "They Can't Lick Our Dick" (Nixon campaign slogan).

RangerScience 11y ago
Seriously?
- ktRolster 11y ago
  Then there was this one: http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/357927/12493914/1306952455567/Don't+change+Dicks+in+the+midst+of+a+screw.jpg?token=v6FdWHv7W42U%2Fe7DcApWy5Dgcv4%3D http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/357927/12493914/130695...
  - krylon 11y ago
    That ... is easily the most unsual political ad I have seen in my life. To put it mildly. ;-) I am tempted to think it was satire? I mean, this would not have been very appealing to Nixon's target audience, would it?
    - labster 11y ago
      As a former satirist, I am 99% sure that is satire. Certainly a majority like that wouldn't be silent for long! This looks exactly like the kind of stuff I was putting up around my college for George W. Bush. Also, this sign has a great rhyme scheme; I almost feel like it needs "Burma Shave" at the bottom.
      - krylon 11y ago
        > Certainly a majority like that wouldn't be silent for long! Now I have an image stuck in my head of a crowd chanting the slogan on that poster... Please, make it stop! ;-)
- sjwright 11y ago
  https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/28350/are-these-real-badges-for-richard-nixons-1972-presidential-campaign https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/28350/are-these...

leoc 11y ago

'Lick' is an old slang term for 'blow', in the a-blow-was-struck sense. That's why the title of the Rolling Stones' greatest-hits album https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_Licks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_Licks is a three-way pun. 'Forty licks' is a proverbial term for a particular kind of corporal punishment: forty blows of the cane or whatever. Or see "The Return of Ulysses", the final chapter of The Wind in the Willows: http://www.cleavebooks.co.uk/grol/grahame/wind12.htm http://www.cleavebooks.co.uk/grol/grahame/wind12.htm