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Thank you, Jack, my apollogies if we're as...if you were as confused as I was. The jury has

'''Cracker Jack'''<br /> ...rn and peanuts. "Jack" has been used for "man" since the mid-1500s, as in "jack-of-all-trades." "Crackerjack" entered English first as a noun referring to

'''Gigg, Jack'''<br />

...rea and adjacent districts of London in the latter half of 1888. The name "Jack the Ripper" is taken from a letter to the Central News Agency by someone cl

'''La Foam, Happy Jack'''<br />

...according to the [http://www.crackerjack.com/history.php official Cracker Jack website], in 1896. The OED lists the first written use of "crackerjack" as '''Cracker Jack'''<br>

...ners came from Cornwall. The stock nickname for any Cornishman was "Cousin Jack." So Jacktown is the area where the Cornish families live. ...revented this. See this [http://crownkinghiker.blogspot.com/2011/05/single-jack-miner-according-to-frank.html?m=1 blog entry] which has a description and

'''Jack, we're seventeen'''<br>

...lling to earth and being mistaken for a meteorite at first is prominent in Jack Arnold's "It Came from Outer Space" (1954), although the aliens in that cas

Jack Weatherford, in ''Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World'' (2004),

...nd highest of society rubbed elbows to watch George Coplen fight the famed Jack Dempsey.

...'t know either. Of course I got hooted at. The joke was in connection with Jack Warner, the head of Warner Bros. Believe it or not, he saw the wire, the wi

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..., ''Time and Again'' (1970). See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Finney Jack Finney] for more.

"O.I.C." is an initialism for Ohio Improved Chester, which is a breed of hog. Jack London actually [http://www.jacklondons.net/palace.html raised them on his

'''Happy Jack La Foam'''<br> A pharmacist named La Foam, first names Happy Jack are more hilarious Pynchonian naming. [see Dr. Hilarious, CoL49].<br>

:The members of a set can be, say, [Mike, Mary, Jack, Richard, Ron, Umeki, . . . . . .], the employees of a company, or the pass

...reader.com/movies/archives/0997/09057.html ''Le Mépris'' (''Contempt'')], Jack Palance's character "Jeremy Prokosch," an American movie-producer, intones

...f the serial killer known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper Jack the Ripper] who terrorised this part of London in the autumn of 1888. '''Jack the Ripper'''<br>

This is an homage to Jack Kerouac's ''On the Road'' character, Dean Moriarty (Neal Cassady in real li