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Dearest Bill, no one is laughing at you or your post, Dear Heart. I think it's fascinating.
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... you never know, though. someone out there might be ridiculing 'another connection.' 
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ridiculing 'another connection.'
Well, we wouldn't want to frustrate it.
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Hey, you two! No fair tag-teaming him!
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I wonder if it can be connected to marching - to the beat of the drumstick? No positive info, just a stray thought. Alternatively, derived from a Yiddish expression about schtick, as in going into sales patter?
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Well, it is October, so I suppose getting on the stick could be flying across the moon in one's black threads...
This makes more sense to me than the other aviation suggestion since only smaller, or single seat aircraft have sticks (often called "Joysticks," no doubt for naughty reasons, since they're between the legs). Larger, and modern commercially produced small planes have wheels or yokes instead. There are a couple of ultra-modern airliners that have gone back to the stick, but it's side-mounted.
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Could "get on the stick" conceivably be related, in some way I can't fathom, to "sticks" meaning an isolated rural area? (as in the famous Variety headline, "STICKS NIX HICKS PIX")
If not, what's the source for this meaning of "sticks"?
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<<What is the source for this meaningof "sticks"?
"Living in the sticks," as I understand it, wouldn't mean living in a sod house on the Great Plains, but in a cabin in a wooded area. That is, "living in the sticks" is near to literal. It is interesting to me to the more general meaning of living in an isolated area--and it occurs to me I am hearing it from a prairie dweller. Hmm.
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<<..have wheels...instead
Aren't the "[steering] wheels" in all aircraft called "sticks" no matter their ergonomic(?) design?
Even if they weren't, the inference you make would likely be flawed by anachronism since the expression probably still predates the modernized cockpit.
In any event, the notion of witches hopping on their broom sticks is certainly just as suggestive as the term "joy stick." ;)
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