green weenie

[Wilson Gray]

When I was in the Army in the late '50'-'60's, the "green weenie" was
the military, imagined as a penis clad in Army-green whose purpose it
was to "fuck," so to speak, the ordinary enlisted personnel doing
their best merely to follow orders. That is to say, it was the
military version of the civilian _shaft_, "get the green weenie" being
the exact equivalent of "get the shaft."

There was no accompanying gesture.

--
-Wilson
–––
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



On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Clai Rice <cxr1086 at louisiana.edu> wrote:
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> Heard on CNN this morning, Alan Simpson talking to Candy Crowley about the budget deficit on her show "State of the Union," near the 50th minute of the hour:
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> "and anybody giving you anything different than that, you wanta walk out the door, stick your finger down your throat and give 'em a - the green weenie." [gesture: right thumb straight up moving upward, fist closed, like a 'thumb's up' sign, starting with 'and give' and carrying through the pause before "the green weenie"].
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> From our archives, 'Green Weenie' seems to be a Philly thing, though I don't find any particular finger/thumb gesture associated, nor the notion of barfing or gagging. Any ideas on what Simpson thinks a green weenie is?
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