[Ads-l] _hit in the face with the ugly stick_
Jim Parish
jparish at SIUE.EDU
Tue Oct 18 21:23:55 UTC 2016
Wilson Gray wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Jim Parish <jparish at siue.edu> wrote:
>
>> the "ugly stick", which did physical damage and also decreased the
>> Charisma of the victim.
>
> Specifically when the victim was "hit in the face with the ugly stick"?
>
I think the phrase which inspired me was something like "bein' whupped
with the ugly stick".
Jim Parish
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