"toke the wild hair" -- Query

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sat Jun 1 00:44:29 UTC 2002


At 6:26 PM -0400 5/31/02, James McIntosh wrote:
>Bill Smith ---
>
>At 04:25 PM 5/31/02 -0400, you wrote:
>>Has no one noticed that "toke" meant "inhale marijuana", as in Jan and
>>Dean's (I think) song "One toke over the line"?
>>Bill
>
>I doubt that it was Jan and Dean.
>Maybe Brewer and Shipley.
>
...Sweet Jesus.

It was the latter pair.

Larry



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