Popsicle (UNCLASSIFIED)
Eric Nielsen
ericbarnak at GMAIL.COM
Tue Apr 6 10:56:05 UTC 2010
There's also the *pukesicle*. So-called by drunks who didn't quite make it
home on a cold night and woke up beside their frozen emesis. I first heard
this from a good friend who attended AA meetings. Survivor's humor; many
never get to make a joke about it.
Eric
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Paul Johnston <paul.johnston at wmich.edu>wrote:
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> No, but that's a good one!
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> On Apr 5, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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> > Did they also use the "icy BM" joke?
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> >> There was a recent episode of CSI:NY where a construction worker was
> >> killed by a piece of frozen excrement ejected from an airplane toilet
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