"Blow me up"
Benjamin Barrett
gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM
Mon Feb 4 08:30:32 UTC 2013
On Feb 3, 2013, at 11:42 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 12:51 AM, Tyler Schnoebelen <tylers at stanford.edu> wrote:
>> blow me up
>
> "blow smoke up my ass"
FWIW, my dad said my grandfather claimed to have invented the expression "blow grass up someone's ass." I think he passed away in 1971.
I don't think I've ever heard it outside of that story. Google yields no hits.
Benjamin Barrett
Seattle, WA
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