Slang etymology from South Park ('to cheese')

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Mar 27, 2008, at 9:15 AM, Ron Butters wrote:

> No, Arnold. The South Park episode was not about heroin. It was
> about people
> getting high form sniffing car urine. What you heard on NPR is not
> the same
> thing.

sorry.  i seem to have mixed up two postings by wilson.

the South Park usage is pretty clearly an invention, as you suggested.

arnold

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