[Dixielandjazz] "Solid Gates" and "In Like Flynn"

[Don Ingle]

Jackson was Phil Harris's jive nickname for Jack Benny on Benny's radio
show. "Hi ya, Jackson" was his greeting for many years when he made his
entrance. Phil used a lot of what was then "Hep" slang in his role on the
show.
Don Ingle
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Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] "Solid Gates" and "In Like Flynn"


> In a message dated 11/01/03 20:55:15 GMT Standard Time,
> barbonestreet@earthlink.net writes:
>
> << 1967 a film, In Like Flint, a spy spoof
>  starring James Coburn, took its title by wordplay from the older
>  expression, >>
>
> Hi Steve
>
> That explanation looks a little unsafe as the title of the film was
`Flint`
> NOT `In like Flint`.
> Unless the title was changed for the UK of course. That is not impossible
as
> I for one have never heard the phrase `In like Flint` so perhaps it was
not a
> well known phrase in this country at all.
>
> I am not at all sure there is an `explanation` for the emergence of
certain
> words. They seem to just take on a life of there own. It is a mystery that
a
> certain word either suddenly appears in use or changes its meaning. Who
> dreamed up `Flip your lid`,``Give me some skin`,` Sock it to me`.`Oh! you
> kid`, and how did `wicked` suddenly mean `good` and `cool` mean
`approval`?.
> While on the subject, who was `Jackson`
>
> Cheers
>
> PatL
>
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