An obscure bit of military slang

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> Somehow this thread gets me thinking of U. Utah Phillips and his
> moose turd pie.  Here's a version on the web:
> http://blinkynet.net/humor/story/mtpie.html; he's recorded other
> versions as well, but this transcription includes "So I said to
> myself, 'Self...'," tying it to a much earlier thread of ours before
> we got involved with the current shit.  If you'd rather hear U. Utah
> tell it, in a slightly more elaborate version, you can listen on
> http://www.utahphillips.org/stuff/mooseturdpie.mp3 from  "Good
> Though".

And for more on Utah's "self"-talk, see my Language Log post:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003351.html


--Ben Zimmer

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