"flying fuck"

[davemarc]

Just want to clarify: Vonnegut used the doughnut variant. Also,
Slaughterhouse-Five was long in-the-making. So it might be possible to find
a pre-'69 draft that includes the expression.

No biggee--just thought I'd mention this.

Mmmm...doughnuts,

David

----- Original Message -----
From: Sam Clements <SClements at NEO.RR.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 1:01 AM
Subject: Re: "flying fuck"


> Newspaperarchive has from 1952 a cite for "take a flying jump at a rolling
> doughnut" and from 1972 "take a flying leap at a rolling doughnut."  So
the
> expression no doubt goes back a ways, not that we'll find "flying fuck" in
> print very easily.
>
> Sam Clements
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 12:09 AM
> Subject: Re: "flying fuck"
>
>
> > Ron writes:
> >
> >>"Now that you mention it, I remember this
> >>  insult from the 1950's.
> >
> > Likewise.
> >
> > -Wilson
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 7:17 PM,  <RonButters at aol.com> wrote:
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> >>  In a message dated 4/17/08 2:14:01 PM, funex79 at CHARTER.NET writes:
> >>
> >>
> >>  > I've heard it as:
> >>  > "Why don't you go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut!"
> >>  >
> >>
> >>  Thus something of little worth--OK. (Now that you mention it, I
remember
> >> this
> >>  insult from the 1950s.)
> >>
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