Night of a Thousand Waterfalls

[Scot LaFaive]

Yes, it does appear to have a more general sense as well. And I've found
some more hits for "night of 1000 waterfalls" but still not as many as I'd
have thought.

Scot

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> I've never heard of this, Scot.  My Google search suggests that it mostly
> means a night of diarrhea from mild food poisoning.
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> FWIW, there is an unpleasant Royal Navy poem, set in China, that commences,
> "In the Street of a Thousand Arseholes...."
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> JL
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> > I decided to do a little research into the age of this expression
> > (referring
> > to the results of one preparing for a colonoscopy) but was surprised to
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> > very few hits on Google with the earliest only being a couple years old.
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> > Scot
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