Heard on Springer: _give it up_

[Wilson Gray]

Twenty-ish black male speaker, addressing his wife:

"Blah, blah, bah! And you don't even hardly let me have sex no more!"

Twenty-ish, black female speaker, in response:

"Why *should* I _give it up_ to you, when you don't do *nothing* to help me?"


This has to do with my earlier post claiming that the ritualized
practice of calling upon audiences to "give it up" is a sex-based pun
entirely understood as such by those audience.

_Get up off of (it)_ has the same, ritualized, sexual meaning, as in
the well-known(?), punning blues verse,

If I can't sell it
Then I'm going to keep on sitting on it
Because
I ain't _getting up off of_ *nothing*
For *free*!

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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.
-Mark Twain

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