Blow smoke up someone's ass

Mon Jul 27 21:36:47 UTC 2009

At 7/27/2009 05:15 PM, Michael Sheehan wrote:
>Need to know the actual origin of "to blow smoke up someone's ass." The
>story about 18th c. tobacco smoke enemas seems highly dubious, but it's
>all over the place.

Well, with Turkish water pipes, ... .

Joel

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