"Kicking footballs"

[Jonathan Lighter]

No comment can do justice to the obscurity of this phrase.

  JL

Scot LaFaive <spiderrmonkey at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
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Sender: American Dialect Society
Poster: Scot LaFaive
Subject: "Kicking footballs"
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I've always considered the phrase "up your ass kicking footballs" (as in if=
you ask someone where the phone is, they might say "If it was up your ass =
kicking footballs you'd know it/know where it is") to be fairly common. But=
imagine my horror when I look in The Google and only find two hits (one wi=
th "kicking" and one with "kickin"). Am I wrong? Is this not a common phras=
e? I've heard it quite a few times here in Wisconsin (mainly central WI), b=
ut now I'm wondering if I haven't heard it from the same three people all m=
y life. My world really isn't that small, is it?
=20
Scot L.
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