Unfamiliar slang term

[Wilson Gray]

Sorry about that!

-Wilson

On 2/29/08, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  Hi, sugar!
>       Here's the word on the word.
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>  Love you,
>  -Wilson
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>  On 2/29/08, Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com> wrote:
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> >  On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:11:09AM -0500, Wilson Gray wrote:
>  >  > The quote is the set-up to the punchline of a joke. The word's meaning
>  >  > is clear. The question is whether anyone has ever come across the term
>  >  > elsewhere. The situation entails a wronged husband giving directions
>  >  > to a hit-man:
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>  >  > "I want you to shoot my cheating wife in the head. The guy, I want him
>  >  > alive, but
>  >  > can you shoot his _todger_ off?"
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>  > This is extremely common in British English. OED has an entry with a
>  >  first cite of 1986.
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>  >  Jesse Sheidlower
>  >  OED
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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                                              -Sam'l Clemens

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