Daily Candy Lexicons I, II, III

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Tue Jun 18 14:27:02 UTC 2002


On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:52:59AM -0400, Mark A Mandel wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>
> #DAILY CANDY LEXICON III (June 17, 2002)
> #
> #"I smoke O.P.'s." As in "I smoke other people's cigarettes."
>
> I heard this one at least as early as late sixties. It reminds me of:

HDAS has this to 1929, and "O.P." (not with the genitive) from decades
earlier.

Jesse Sheidlower



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