What a coinkidink.
B Briggs
An alternate spelling is coincidink. There seems to be a lot of usage in the
gaming community and younger (than me) age groups, if the google hits are
representative. I dimly remember it associated with Groucho Marx?
Barbara
John Dean
Cassell's Dic. of Slang has it from US campuses in the 1980s (leading to 90s
quinkydink)
It's certainly a picture-skew way of expressing yourself.
I think it increased in value from a ten-pence coin-kidink to a one pound
coin-kidink
--
John Dean
Oxford
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Michael J Hardy
> When did this usage as an alternative for coincidence become popular.
As so often happens on a.u.e., this posting is the first I
ever heard of it. -- Mike Hardy
Brian Wickham
wrote:
Just as dimly, I seem to associate it with Red Skelton who also used
"It's an o-rig-i-nal DaVincki." (tha's a hard G in original, of
course.)
Brian
Shakib Otaqui
bwic...@nyc.rr.com (Brian Wickham) wrote:
Equally dimly, I associate it with Jimmy Durante, possibly
because he used to sing "Inky Rinky Dink".
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Gwen Lenker
wrote:
Dimliest of all, I associate it with Curly Howard of the Three
Stooges.
Tony Cooper
"Shakib Otaqui" <sha...@tinlc.lumbercartel.com> wrote in message
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Wasn't that Inka-dinka-doo?
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Provider of Jots & Tittles
John Dean
What elephant?
Shakib Otaqui
"Tony Cooper" <tony_co...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> "Shakib Otaqui" <sha...@tinlc.lumbercartel.com> wrote in message
> news:20020713....@tinlc.lumbercartel.com...
> > In article <3d30a998...@news-server.nyc.rr.com>,
> > bwic...@nyc.rr.com (Brian Wickham) wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 08:42:40 -0700, "B Briggs"
> <theb...@citlink.net>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > >[re: coinkidink]
> > > Just as dimly, I seem to associate it with Red Skelton who also used
> > > "It's an o-rig-i-nal DaVincki." (tha's a hard G in original, of
> > > course.)
> >
> > Equally dimly, I associate it with Jimmy Durante, possibly
> > because he used to sing "Inky Rinky Dink".
>
> Wasn't that Inka-dinka-doo?
It could well be. My memory for names, of people as well as
songs, is notoriously unreliable and it's been many years since
I heard it. But I can still, in my mind's eye, see him hoofing
while singing it.
--
Of all liars, memory is the most convincing.
B Briggs
"Gwen Lenker" <gale...@mail.com> wrote in message
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Ooooh .Ooooh. I think I remember that also. But then, I think I am
remembering all the other suggestions too. I am so confused.
M.J.Powell
<sha...@tinlc.lumbercartel.com> writes
And 'The Man Who Found The Lost Chord'?
Mike
--
M.J.Powell
John Estill
"Rink-
A-dink-a-dink-
A-dink-a-dink-
A-dink-a-doo,
Oh, what a night for loving ..."
is what I recall; and I think Durante also said "What a coinkidink!"
from time to time.
Regards,
John
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John Estill
Native English speaker (midwestern variety), español al estilo mexicano
Millersburg, Ohio, U.S.A.
John Estill
wrote:
No, wait, the first syllable is "Ink". I was confusing this with
"rinkydink", which is another kettle of fish.
Truly Donovan
Hardy) wrote:
Yeah, and then three people will say it to you in the course
of the next two days.
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Truly Donovan
http://www.trulydonovan.com
*Winslow's Wife* (fall 2002)
*Chandler's Daughter* (2000)
Brian Wickham
It was "Ink-A-Dink-A-Doo" and was his signature song, but I'm sure
there is no connection to "Coinckadink".
My wife says it may be from Pinky Lee, and it does sound in character
for him, but I don't know. Another suggestion is Soupy Sales. This
can go on forever!
Brian
B Briggs
"Brian Wickham" <bwic...@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message
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in our lives. I loved Soupy with the White Fang and Black Tooth puppets (or
was it the reverse?). We sure didn't ask for much then in our
entertainment, did we? Hardly any special effects.
Barbara
R H Draney
news:uj75rq4...@corp.supernews.com:
> "Brian Wickham" <bwic...@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:3d32fd2...@news-server.nyc.rr.com...
>> My wife says it may be from Pinky Lee, and it does sound in
>> character for him, but I don't know. Another suggestion is Soupy
>> Sales. This can go on forever!
>>
> I suppose this illustrates that we all have watched some pretty
> bad comedy in our lives. I loved Soupy with the White Fang and
> Black Tooth puppets (or was it the reverse?). We sure didn't ask
> for much then in our entertainment, did we? Hardly any special
> effects.
Oh, I don't know...we had Hobo Kelly (Sally Baker) when I were young,
and not a show went by where she didn't magically change costumes by
walking behind a tree that was narrower than she was...*that* was
pretty special...then there was Paul Winchell's head upside down with
a pair of false eyes stuck to his chin and a miniature double-breasted
suit covering the part of his face that would normally be the top....
Then there was "ringmaster" Billy Barty, who managed to keep in line
an entire studio full of kids, many of whom were two feet taller than
he was....
(My stepfather, born 1923, was convinced that Peewee Herman was the
second coming of Pinky Lee)....r
Richard Fontana
For what it's worth, that's also my association. I'm pretty sure "what a
coinkidenk" (in that full phrase) was in fairly wide use among kids during
my childhood (1970s), and it may be noted that the Three Stooges were
pretty well known to kids during that era.