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

[Wilson Gray]

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

You don't believe that shit, do you, Charlie?

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