UD: (2005) _do the thing_ = "have sex"; (2007) _stinky leg_ = "penis"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Usage note for Inglish speakers: Imagining MP saying "baby daddy" so
craftily, condescendingly, and pseudo-hiply just creeps me out.

It's a gut thing.

JL

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> In '50's Saint Louis,
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> _do the thing_ meant
> .
> "get married."
>
> Heard on Maury:
>
> A woman explains why she had a second baby by a man who had already
> denied that he was her first baby daddy.
>
> "I *love* to
>
> _do the stinky leg_!"
>
> In context,
>
> "have sex,"
>
> very likely.
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