taking the slaw (was Re: SUX)

[Wilson Gray]

On Sep 27, 2004, at 8:37 PM, Grant Barrett wrote:

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> On Sep 27, 2004, at 20:02, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
>>> No, I haven't. But it reminds me of "tossing the salad," which I've
>>> heard on TV cop shows and even on sitcoms, from time to time.
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>> surely that's 'jacking/jerking off, masturbating', no?
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> No, it was popularized in by a well-known Chris Rock routine. He uses
> it to mean giving a rim job (a rimming

Do you recall that line from The Boys in The Band? "Your lips are so
blue, you look like you've been rimming a snowman."

-Wilson Gray

> , not a reaming) with condiments.
> Rock says he learned about it from an HBO special on prison life,
> which, as far as I can tell, ran in 1996 or late 1995.
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> Grant Barrett
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