johnson bar

[Jordan Rich]

At 07:55 AM 9/29/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Also the name of a heavy lever used to remove railroad spikes and moving
>heavy equipment, from there, the concept of a heavy bar, quickly became
>in slang another name for a penis, as in "I showed her my really big
>johnson" ,

A revelation for me as I had heard/read? that the boxer Jack Johnson's
sexual exploits was the origination of this usage.

Jordan