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  • On weekends, he comes off the drugs, and reverts to 'witty ticcy Ray,'

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Then it took me five weeks to recover from my WisCon-induced cold and I'm now starting month _four_ of yet another sinus sickness, instigated by a cold, but exacerbated / perpetuated by the ticcy ticcy side effects of drugs my brain specialist wanted me to try.

    Alex Wilson Studios 2009

  • And it gets even trickier: You're trying to communicate in real time with someone you cannot see or hear responses from; and though you're communicating in speech, your remarks cannot have any of the fragmentary, repetitive, garbled qualities of real interhuman speech, or speech's ticcy unconscious "umm" s or "you know" s, or false starts or stutters or long pauses while you try to think of how to phrase what you want to say next.

    Host 2005

  • And it gets even trickier: You're trying to communicate in real time with someone you cannot see or hear responses from; and though you're communicating in speech, your remarks cannot have any of the fragmentary, repetitive, garbled qualities of real interhuman speech, or speech's ticcy unconscious "umm" s or "you know" s, or false starts or stutters or long pauses while you try to think of how to phrase what you want to say next.

    Host 2005

  • "I went from being normal one day to being a ticcy, freaky thing the next.

    The Guardian World News 2009

  • "I went from being normal one day to being a ticcy, freaky thing the next.

    The Guardian World News 2009

  • Ledger, for my liking, doesn't quite have the ticcy, nervy danger on screen that would have made his Joker an outstanding piece of cinematic devilment, "write the Jesse Hassenger goes spoilerific at the L Magazine.

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • Ledger, for my liking, doesn't quite have the ticcy, nervy danger on screen that would have made his Joker an outstanding piece of cinematic devilment, "write the Jesse Hassenger goes spoilerific at the L Magazine.

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • Ledger, for my liking, doesn't quite have the ticcy, nervy danger on screen that would have made his Joker an outstanding piece of cinematic devilment, "write the Jesse Hassenger goes spoilerific at the L Magazine.

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • Ledger, for my liking, doesn't quite have the ticcy, nervy danger on screen that would have made his Joker an outstanding piece of cinematic devilment, "write the Jesse Hassenger goes spoilerific at the L Magazine.

    GreenCine Daily 2009

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