From Adult Swim's "Black Jesus" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

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This was in use as far back as 1981 at the Univ of Tn, Knoxville.

(Not that I ever had any reason to use the term myself, you understand -- it was friends who said it.  Yeah, that's it.)



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> "You're going to get you *pounds* of marijuana, baby! I'm talking about
> _*elbows*_!"
> 
> The UD has
> 
> "elbow : a pound of marijuana"
> 
> from 2002.
> 
> An obvious extension of the common pronunciation of the abbr., "lb(s)."
> as "L B('s)."
> 
> (My lady wife prefers "lib(s)," which I know as "Librium(s).)
> 
> --
> -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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