An “icicle” is not a “cycle,” like a “bicycle,” but a popular winter riddle is:
Q: How do snowmen travel around?
A: By icicle.
The riddle was posted on the newsgroup alt.support.arthritis on December 14, 2001.
Google Groups: alt.support.arthritis
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Joe Nicholson
12/14/01
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Q: How do snowmen travel around?
A: By icicle!
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OT: snowman jokes
AirDuct-Kate
9/28/05
(...)
How do snowmen travel around ?
By iceicle !
20 December 2005, Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI), “Seasonal Fun Facts,” pg. D1:
Dopey joke o’ the day
Q: How do snowmen travel around ?
A: By iceicle !
Google Books
August 2007, Boys’ Life, “Think & Grin,” pg. 54, col. 1:
Jack: How do snowmen travel?
Robert: How?
Jack: By icicle.
Jack Ferenczy, University Heights, Ohio
Google Books
Laughter, the Best Medicine: Holidays:
Ho, Ho, Ha! The Merriest Jokes, Quotes, and Cartoons
By Editors of Reader’s Digest
New York, NY: Reader’s Digest Association
2012
Pg. ?:
How do snowmen travel?
By icicle.
Google Books
Side-Splitting Riddles
Illustrated by Kevin Rechin
Columbus, OH: Highlights for Children, Inc.
2012
Pg. ?:
How do snowmen travel around?
By icicle.
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How do snowmen travel around ?
By iceicle
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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