Come off the money (= get off the dime?)

[Drew Danielson]

the / ' ' shit / scheme appears to need another stanza to complete
it.... I am not well-enough versed in meter to say what's going on here,
but that's the sense I get from it....

I have only ever heard 'and only farted', but then we aren't as
sophisticated in our bathroom humor out here in the provinces as yinz
Nooyawkahs are....



Laurence Horn wrote:
>
> At 9:21 AM -0400 4/16/02, Benjamin Fortson wrote:
> >  > >     Here I sit,
> >>  >     broken-hearted
> >>  >     paid my dime
> >>  >     and only farted
> >
> >Isn't the third line normally "had a shit"?
>
> "tried to shit".  Your version makes no sense in the context, does
> it?  The "tried to shit" version may well (for all I know) be an
> adaptation that serves to retain this immortal verse for a generation
> postdating the demise of pay toilets.
>
> Larry

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