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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!charlie
  2. From: charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Charles Geyer)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  4. Subject: Re: Excrement in the English Language
  5. Keywords: scatology, slang
  6. Message-ID: <1992Dec21.192905.22541@news2.cis.umn.edu>
  7. Date: 21 Dec 92 19:29:05 GMT
  8. References: <1992Dec18.171905.18428@news2.cis.umn.edu> <1992Dec19.025154.26253@news2.cis.umn.edu> <BzM6px.Dyo@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
  9. Sender: news@news2.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
  10. Organization: School of Statistics, University of Minnesota
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  12. Nntp-Posting-Host: isles.stat.umn.edu
  13.  
  14. In article <BzM6px.Dyo@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> dam@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (David Morning) writes:
  15. >charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Charles Geyer) writes:
  16. >
  17. >>And the old Army saying
  18. >
  19. >>   Shit flows downhill.
  20. >
  21. >Must be some diet they have in the US army.
  22. >
  23. >Prunes, rhubarb and baked beans all washed down with a couple
  24. >of pints of Guinness?
  25. >:-)
  26.  
  27. "downhill" means down the chain of command.
  28.  
  29. -- 
  30. Charles Geyer
  31. School of Statistics
  32. University of Minnesota
  33. charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu
  34.