Night of a Thousand Waterfalls

[Wilson Gray]

You ain't jiving, my brother! You sho-nuff got that right!

-Wilson Gray

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Laurence Horn<laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> At 11:21 AM -0400 9/1/09, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>>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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> Well, as someone who has undergone double-digit :oscopy preps, I have
> to say that the semantic extension in question is fairly well
> motivated.
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> LH
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>>FWIW, there is an unpleasant Royal Navy poem, set in China, that commences,
>>"In the Street of a Thousand Arseholes...."
>>
>>JL
>>On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Scot LaFaive <slafaive at gmail.com> wrote:
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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
>>>  find
>>>  very few hits on Google with the earliest only being a couple years old.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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