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- From: sue@netcom.com (Sue Miller)
- Subject: Re: Excrement in the English Language
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.232038.21405@netcom.com>
- Keywords: scatology, slang
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- References: <1992Dec19.025154.26253@news2.cis.umn.edu> <BzM6px.Dyo@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> <1992Dec21.192905.22541@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:20:38 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.192905.22541@news2.cis.umn.edu> charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Charles Geyer) writes:
- >In article <BzM6px.Dyo@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> dam@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (David Morning) writes:
- >>charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Charles Geyer) writes:
- >>
- >>>And the old Army saying
- >>
- >>> Shit flows downhill.
- >>
- >>Must be some diet they have in the US army.
- >>
- >>Prunes, rhubarb and baked beans all washed down with a couple
- >>of pints of Guinness?
- >>:-)
- >
- >"downhill" means down the chain of command.
- >
- >--
-
- Neither of you have ever spent much time on a dairy farm, I'd
- guess. If you had, then you would know where the phrase might
- might have arisen. Not necessarily from dairies, mind, but
- from roughly similar methods of sanitation from the good old days. ;-)
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