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Thread #142079 Message #3275252
Posted By: MGM·Lion
16-Dec-11 - 11:02 PM
Thread Name: BS: Euphemistic US Usages
Subject: RE: BS: Euphemistic US Usages
No ~ 'stick it up your jumper' [with or without its preceding 'Umpahs'] has always been understood here to be a minced form of 'stick it up your arse' ~ as in the old music hall exchange,
"How do you make a Maltese cross with one match?"
"I don't know ~ how do you make a Maltese cross with one match?"
"Light it and stick it up his jumper!"
"I do not wish to know that ~ kindly leave the stage!"
LoL [or not]
~M~
& of course Al is absolutely right too above about the ontological significance ~~ and existential and epistemological to boot...