_Kiss my grits!_ = "Kiss my ass!," by a writer for The Family Guy

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:05 PM -0400 5/31/11, victor steinbok wrote:
>toe jam, toe cheese, toe khus... I think I see a pattern here ;-)
>
>VS-)

!  nice one, although next time someone invites me to kiss 'em in the
tochus I won't be able to avoid thinking of toe jam (a.k.a. grits).
"Toe cheese" I don't know, although a related form of "cheese" (as in
crotch cheese) surfaces elsewhere as an alternate realization of
smegma.  I prefer the technical term for that, though, because it
seems curiously onomatopoeic.  Could "smegma" really be the name for
a beautiful wildflower or the young of a gazelle, I ask you?  Q.E.D.

LH

>On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>  On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
>>  wrote:
>>  > the grits to be kissed "are located between the toes".
>>
>>  So, _grits_ is really being used as a cover for "toe jam" - "toe
>>  cheese" is, I think, the term used by you people - and, hence, has no
>>  real relationship to "kiss my wrist."
>>
>>  That's cool.
>>
>>  --
>>  -Wilson
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