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Chocolate, of course. When I was growing up, the candy hearts had out-of-date slang on them, like "23 Skidoo!" I never knew what those messages meant. Finally looked up skidoo in the dictionary. It means something like "Let's get out of here" but why the 23? I don't think the messages had been changed from the 1920s.
 

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When I was growing up, the candy hearts had out-of-date slang on them, like "23 Skidoo!" I never knew what those messages meant. Finally looked up skidoo in the dictionary. It means something like "Let's get out of here" but why the 23? I don't think the messages had been changed from the 1920s.
I had to look it up. 23 and skidoo both mean the same thing apparently: It is a combination of two separate slang words which, were “23” and “skidoo”. To use both would refer to getting kicked out (of somewhere) or having to leave.
 
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