taking the slaw (was Re: SUX)

[Sam Clements]

You might find a few thread from over at StraightDope, er, uh,
'enlightening.'  Or gross, your choice.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=32246

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=46894&highlight=tossing+salad

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=37128&highlight=tossing+salad

Sam Clements

----- Original Message -----
From: "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: taking the slaw (was Re: SUX)


> At 8:37 PM -0400 9/27/04, Grant Barrett wrote:
> >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.
> >>
> >>surely that's 'jacking/jerking off, masturbating', no?
> >
> >No, it was popularized in by a well-known Chris Rock routine. He uses
> >it to mean giving a rim job (a rimming, 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.
> >
> Are the condiments pre-determined?  chosen from a proffered tray?
>
> larry, just curious
>