"Where the sun don't shine"

Sun Jan 15 00:16:47 UTC 2006

On 1/14/06, Bapopik at aol.com <Bapopik at aol.com> wrote:
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> Subject:      "Where the sun don't shine"
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> WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE--180,000 Google hits
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> COLBERT: Hello, is this Dr. Michael  Adams?
>
> ADAMS: Yes it is.
>
> COLBERT: Uh, Dr. Adams, this is Stephen  Colbert from "The Colbert
> Report."
> Are you familiar with the show?
>
> ADAMS: Ummm, no.
>
> COLBERT: OK, are you the same Dr. Adams who took  it upon himself to
> define
> truthiness to the Associated Press last  week?
>
> ADAMS: Uh, yes I am.
>
> COLBERT: Um, sir, where do you get off  defining a word that I made up?
>
> ADAMS: You didn't make it up. It's in the  dictionary.
>
> COLBERT: What dictionary?
>
> ADAMS: It's in the Oxford  English Dictionary.
>
> COLBERT: OK, stop right there. I pulled that word  right out of where the
> sun
> don't shine on October 17th.
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> _POPULAR  RECORDS; Souther Album Signals His Arrival _
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> ROBERT HILBURN. Los  Angeles Times (1886-Current File). Los Angeles,
> Calif.:
> Aug 13, 1972. p.  C49 (2 pages) :
> Pg. 67:
> There's a lot of appealing, top-40 zest in the upbeat "How Long," a song
> about a guy waiting for a girl to get over an unhappy experience: "Well,
> you
> have been doing time in a lonesome prison/Where the sun don't shine/(But)
> Just
> outside a freedom river runs...How long, how long/Woman will you weep?"
> Sizzling  guitar work.
> (John David Souther--ed.)


The prison reference reminds me of the BE slang, "put [someone] so far back
under the jail that they're going to have to pump daylight to him."

--Wilson

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> _A  Loss That's Hard to Lose; Cowboys Can't Shake Super Bowl as They Await
> Pro Bowl _
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> )
> MIKE LITTWIN. Los Angeles  Times (1886-Current File). Los Angeles, Calif.:
> Jan 26, 1979. p. D2 (1  page) :
> Losing. It's the bottom side of winning, a dark place where the sun don't
> shine. On a scale of one to 10, it's a zero.
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> _At  a Loss, He's Doing a Job on Despair_
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> NP&TS=1137268696&clientId=65882)
> ED GOLDMAN.  Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File). Los Angeles,  Calif.:
> Jun
> 4, 1980. p. D7 (1 page) :
> ...I thought that if I found the _perfect job_ immediately, and was able
> to
> tell everyone to put the preliminary budget where the sun don't shine,
> some
> sense of justice would be served, some small sense of dignity recovered.
> ...
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>      _The Daily Intelligencer_
> (
> http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=3YGl/Jks4m6KID/6NLMW2phGE4QmaoT/FqKsIjLs5qi2i2h1cHH99EIF+CsZYmrz
> )  _Sunday,
> November 06,  1983_ (http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=)
> _Doylestown,_
> (
> http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="where+the+sun+don't+shine"+AND+cityid:7736+AND+stateid:77+AND+range:1759-1985
> )
> _Pennsylvania_
> (
> http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="where+the+sun+don't+shine"+AND+stateid:77+AND+range:1759-1985
> )
> ...Now If people talk down to I 'Go WHERE THE  SUN DON'T SHINE.' I've
> never
> hit a woman. But ...  ..
> ...
> ...
>
> _Syracuse Herald Journal_ (http://www.newspaperarc
>
> hive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=3YGl/Jks4m6KID/6NLMW2kBd5KOrlaK18GRdXzrqQV7Lqp1SExJxwUIF+CsZYmrz)
>   _Monday,
> September 17,  1984_ (http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=)
> _Syracuse,_
> (
> http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="where+the+sun+don't+shine"+AND+cityid:28660+AND+stateid:67+AND+range:1759-1985)
> _New  York_
> (
> http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="where+the+sun+don't+shine"+AN
> D+stateid:67+AND+range:1759-1985)
> ...official responded tell him to stick those cans WHERE  THE SUN DON'T
> SHINE. We're selling ...  ..
>
> ...
> ...
> _Syracuse Herald Journal_
> (
> http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=3YGl/Jks4m6KID/6NLMW2kBd5KOrlaK18GRdXzrqQV7DW61ChYMwuEIF+CsZYmrz
> )  _Monday,
> September 17,  1984_ (http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=)
> _Syracuse,_
> (
> http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="where+the+sun+don't+shine"+AND+cityid:28660+AND+stateid:67+AND+range:1759-1985)
> _New  York_
> (
> http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="where+the+sun+don't+shine"+AN
> D+stateid:67+AND+range:1759-1985)
> ...official responded tell him to stick those cans WHERE  THE SUN DON'T
> SHINE. We're selling ...  ..
>
> ...
> ...
> _The Daily Intelligencer_
> (
> http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=3YGl/Jks4m6KID/6NLMW2phGE4QmaoT/rUPNr8Vdl7AqYvi7u0Ss00IF+CsZYmrz
> )  _Sunday,
> November 06,  1983_ (http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=)
> _Doylestown,_
> (
> http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="where+the+sun+don't+shine"+AND+cityid:7736+AND+stateid:77+AND+range:1759-1985)
> _Pennsylvania_
> (
> http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="where+the+sun+don't+shine"
> +AND+stateid:77+AND+range:1759-1985)
> ...Now If people talk down to I 'Go WHERE THE  SUN DON'T SHINE.' I've
> never
> hit a woman. But ...  ..
>
> ...
> ...
> _Syracuse Herald Journal_
> (
> http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=3YGl/Jks4m6KID/6NLMW2kBd5KOrlaK1bmfv7mXDJSAvrFPVZG5d1EIF+CsZYmrz
> )  _Monday,
> September 17,  1984_ (http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=)
> _Syracuse,_
> (
> http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="where+the+sun+don't+shine"+AND+cityid:28660+AND+stateid:67+AND+range:1759-1985)
> _New  York_
> (
> http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="where+the+sun+don't+shine"+AN
> D+stateid:67+AND+range:1759-1985)   ...official  responded tell him to
> stick
> those cans WHERE THE SUN  DON'T SHINE. We're selling ...  ..
>