Upjock and hockums

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  • Up, Guards, and at 'em! words allegedly spoken by the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo
  • Ulysses 554.05: "Up, guards, and at them!"
  • Sigmund Freud, Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious: "Is this the place where Wellington said ‘Up, guards, and at them?’ ... Yes, this is the place. But he never said those words." (Von Falke’s joke)
  • hock, hough: to hamstring an animal
  • hokum: a device found to elicit a display of mirth; something worthless or untrue
  • Tom, Dick and Harry → in FW these three represent Shem, Shaun and the combined Shem-Shaun character who appears also in the guise of Tristan → patterjackmartins and as the three soldiers.
  • Kockums: Swedish industry created in 1840, with a military activity from 1899.