"Biting the big one"

[Bill Le May]

Green weenie sounds familiar to me, and the urban dictionary mentions it,
although it is in conjunction with a different orifice :

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=green+weenie


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> "Bit the green shiboda": interesting! Unfortunately, I can't say for
> certain, anymore, whether I ever heard, "bit(e) the green wienie." Did
> I ever hear it? Or does it merely seem that I heard it, because
> Waits's phrase is so close to it?
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> No, I can't recall any catchphrase referencing "the green wienie,"
> only the phrase itself. That bites the big one, to coin a phrase.
>
> -Wilson

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