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

[Jonathan Lighter]

This has been around for decades, but the only exx. I found for HDAS were
from the sitcom _Alice_, ca1977.  So it didn't make the cut..

What's this? 153,000 raw Google hits!

JL

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 1:44 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Back in the day, in Saint Louis, we used to say,
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> "Kiss my wrist!"
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> with the relevant meaning.
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