[Ads-l] deuce

[Jonathan Lighter]

I think Dennis is very likely correct.

But it still says {deuce}.

JL

On Wed, Jun 24, 2026 at 2:09 PM Ben Zimmer
<00001aae0710f4b7-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
>
> Or perhaps it's meant to evoke "deuce" = "crap, shit, act of defecation,"
> which has come up here in the past.
>
> https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2007-January/066370.html
>
> In that thread, Tom Dalzell notes that New Partridge dates the scatological
> usage to 2003, with a Howard Stern citation about "dropping a deuce."
> Here's "drop a deuce" from 1995 on Usenet.
>
> ---
> https://groups.google.com/g/alt.tasteless.jokes/c/haQmTLgYUKk/m/Q13OYfDQ1yQJ
> Richard Parvey, "NEW and UPDATED Canonical List of Rectal Functions!!,"
> alt.tasteless.jokes, Feb. 22, 1995
> I. Euphemisms for FECES
> [...]
> 40. Drop a deuce
> ---
>
> --bgz
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2026 at 1:55 PM Dennis During <
> 00001bcaf94bd005-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
>
> > douche(bag)?
> >
> > Dennis C. During
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 12:51 Jonathan Lighter <
> > 00001aad181a2549-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > "Worthless individual; "loser."
> > >
> > > This is in HDAS but has not been reported in many decades.  Yet how else
> > > explain this?
> > >
> > > "If I'm ever in the same room with that deuce [a prominent politician], I
> > > hope he raises those tiny little fists in front me..."
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-tries-bend-reality-epic-161832940.html
> > >
> > >
> >
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