# I have a hicky

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-hicky/463513>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 14, 2008, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-hicky/463513 "2008-09-14T00:47:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-hicky/463513/21 "2008-09-16T12:43:17Z")

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I’ve always just circled mine with a Sharpie™, and scrawl an arrow pointing to it reading “THIS IS NOT A HICKY.” Hiding in plain sight. Or something.

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**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-hicky/463513/22 "2008-09-16T12:53:00Z")

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OR!

Or…

(or)  
If you specialize in special effects makeup, create a convincing gash made out of latex and fake blood. Then slap a band-aid over the middle of it, with the ends of the “gash” peeking out. Lots of bruising too.

Either people will stare, nonplussed, or they’ll ask “What the hell happened?!”

To which you simply reply, “Raptors.”

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**Author:** ![bufftabby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bufftabby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bufftabby)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-hicky/463513/23 "2008-09-16T20:50:38Z")

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> [@cmyk](#):
>
> OR!
> 
> Or…
> 
> (or)  
> If you specialize in special effects makeup, create a convincing gash made out of latex and fake blood. Then slap a band-aid over the middle of it, with the ends of the “gash” peeking out. Lots of bruising too.
> 
> Either people will stare, nonplussed, or they’ll ask “What the hell happened?!”
> 
> To which you simply reply, “Raptors.”

Oh hell yes. Get Tom Savini on that, stat.

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