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

[Jonathan Lighter]

Weird then. Weird today.

JL

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

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> Back in 1974, an aritcle by W. R. Higginbotham, "The Real Nitty Gritty,"
> _American Speech_ 49:90-101, suggested anal implications of "gritty" in the
> phrase "nitty gritty" ("nitty" referring to louse eggs).
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> Perhaps (slightly) relevant to "Kiss my grits"?
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> --Charlie
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> Wilson, a character on _Alice_ used to say, "Kiss my grits!" frequently.
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> Wow! Wikipedia tells the whole story! There's so much knowledge to be had!:
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> 'Flo's catch phrase, "Kiss my grits!" enjoyed widespread popularity at the
> time the character appeared on Alice. According to Polly Holliday, the line
> was originally written as "Kiss my honeydew!", but did not get any laughs.
> (In the original film, Flo, as played by Diane Ladd, tells Mel in one scene
> to "kiss me where the sun don't shine.") Another of Flo's catchphrases was
> "When donkeys fly!" Since her portrayal of Flo, Polly Holliday has refused
> to repeat her famous "grits" line.'
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> BTW, I've never come across "Kiss my wrist!" Neither has Wikipedia.
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> JL
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> n Tue, May 31, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Margaret Lee <mlee303 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > The saying from my cuildhood in central VA was, "You can kiss what I
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> >  and =0AI don't mean my wrist."=0A=A0=0A--Margaret
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> > __________________________=0AFrom: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>=0ATo:
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> > n, May 30, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Jonathan Lighter=0A<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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> > te:=0A> _This_ has been around for decades=0A=0A"Kiss my
> > grits"?=0A=0AOr=0A=
> > =0A"Kiss my wrist"?=0A=0AThe latter, IMO, is the more obvious, having a
> > clo=
> > ser rhyme. But they=0Aboth seem to be the kind of thing that's
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> > y re-invented=0Arepeatedly by the siver-tongued and others quick with a
> > qui=
> > p. Very=0Alikely, they've both been around since perchild first swung
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> > from=0Athe trees.=0A=0A--=0A-Wilson=0A-----=0AAll say, "How hard it is
> > that=
> >  we have to die!"---a strange complaint=0Ato come from the mouths of
> > people=
> >  who have had to live.=0A-Mark
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