"lower back", the euphemism

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Tue Jun 12 23:08:12 UTC 2012


The hunter mauled by a bear in Alaska, who saved himself by
(eventually) climbing 30 feet up a tree, said it was "biting my
[pause] back, my [pause] lower back".

Joel

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