"Blue balls" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Wilson Gray
> Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 12:37 AM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: "Blue balls"
>
>
> When I was a freshman in high school, Harry Gleason, the asshole who
> sat in front of me, used to use the just-for-the-hell-of-it phrase:
>
> "_Blue-balled_ bastard from Piss-Pot Creek"
>
> This, (9/1950) was the first time that I had heard "blue balls" or any
> of its variations, combinations, permutations, or probabilities. The
> phrase, in that context or any other, meant nothing to me and
> continued to mean nothing till ca.1991.

Didn't you see "Full Metal Jacket" (1987)?  With the cadence:

"Ho Chi Minh was a son-of-a-bitch
Got the blue balls, crabs and the seven year itch."

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman is my hero.  I am waiting for the day I can
call someone a "slimy little communist shit, twinkle-toed cocksucker" or
"unorganized grabastic pieces of amphibian shit".  I'll do it, though,
"IF IT SHORT-DICKS EVERY CANNIBAL ON THE CONGO!".

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