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

[Margaret Lee]

The saying from my cuildhood in central VA was, "You can kiss what I twist, and 
I don't mean my wrist."
 
--Margaret Lee




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From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Sent: Mon, May 30, 2011 9:07:29 PM
Subject: Re: _Kiss my grits!_ = "Kiss my ass!," by a writer for The Family Guy

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> _This_ has been around for decades

"Kiss my grits"?

Or

"Kiss my wrist"?

The latter, IMO, is the more obvious, having a closer rhyme. But they
both seem to be the kind of thing that's spontaneously re-invented
repeatedly by the siver-tongued and others quick with a quip. Very
likely, they've both been around since perchild first swung down from
the trees.

--
-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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