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[jester at PANIX.COM]

> I licked it off.
>
> It was *not* mustard. No man ever put a baby down faster.
>
> It was the first and only time I have sprinted with my tongue protruding.
>
> With a washcloth in each hand I did the sort of routine shoeshine
> boys do, only I did it on my tongue.
>
> Later my wife said, "Now you know why they call that mustard
> 'Poupon.'"

Perhaps now would be the time to mention the common military
use of _baby shit_ for 'mustard'.

Jesse Sheidlower
Oxford English Dictionary