Jack's Real Name?

Maggers 01-22-2007, 01:06 AM

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KRW Wrote:I've heard it often and it had nothing to do with Irish ancestry some of the time. Maybe Jacks Puerto Rican.

I agree with you on this, Ken. To squeeze the life out of something is a fairly commonplace saying and not one that I would attribute to any particular heritage.

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Kenji 01-22-2007, 08:34 AM

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Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:Well, BK, I put my 2 cents in on an older thread. My belief is Jack is of Irish parentage because of a phrase his dad used in GATEWAYS: "Squeeze the life out of him.." My foster-folks were of Irish stock, I heard the phrase there first from Daddy, and have =never= heard it used by anybody but the Irish. Just putting another 2 cents in the meter...

Yes, Irish. In "A Day In The Life", I found next conversation.

"What's your name, asshole?"
"Jack"
"Jack what?"
"O'Lantern. It's an old Irish---".

So.....Jack's surname is O'Lantern? Big Grin

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jimbow8 01-22-2007, 10:49 AM

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Kenji Wrote:Yes, Irish. In "A Day In The Life", I found next conversation.

"What's your name, asshole?"
"Jack"
"Jack what?"
"O'Lantern. It's an old Irish---".

So.....Jack's surname is O'Lantern?

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Kenji 01-22-2007, 11:07 AM

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jimbow8 Wrote:

Yeah yeah, I know. I'm in silly mood. :p

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Pleiades 01-22-2007, 12:52 PM

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Jack Innobocs?

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Bluesman Mike Lindner 01-22-2007, 01:48 PM

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Maggers Wrote:I agree with you on this, Ken. To squeeze the life out of something is a fairly commonplace saying and not one that I would attribute to any particular heritage.

I have never heard it said except among Irish people. But perhaps the heathens have picked it up.:p

Ken Valentine 01-22-2007, 01:50 PM

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Kenji Wrote:Yeah yeah, I know. I'm in silly mood. :p

I like that one too. Big Grin

Ken V.

BK Akitas 01-22-2007, 01:59 PM

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well I still thiink its Howard, bc of the license thing.
i wouldn't want to have to try to explain the wriong last name on my driver's license to my mother- and I don't even like her.

the family is likely your average whiteangloesaxonprotestant kinda thing. Tom/Jack/Kate/Tom Jr./country clubs/ivy league schools, etc etc etc....English or Irish descent is a high probablilty.

and I found a pretty big OOPS in the updated Rakoshi text- I can't figure out how this got missed. the background story on Kusu and Kolabati stil has thier parents dying in a train wreck on 1948. If the purpose of th eupdates was to bring the story into line witht he rest of the RK series (some of which specifically mention 9-11 and such to date the books), then that wouldn't wash.

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webby 01-22-2007, 02:22 PM

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Pleiades Wrote:Jack Innobocs?

Maybe Jack Ehlope?

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Bluesman Mike Lindner 01-22-2007, 02:33 PM

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webby Wrote:

Maybe Jack Ehlope?

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