[ExI] buttload

[natasha at natasha.cc]

I am eating lunch, thank you.

delete.



Quoting spike <spike66 at att.net>:

>> ... On Behalf Of Damien Broderick
> Subject: [ExI] buttload
>
> On 5/4/2011 6:59 AM, spike wrote:
>
>>> I think there is a buttload of money to be made here.
>
>> ...I've never understood this American phrase. I assume you don't keep your
> money inside your rectum, and since that's quite a small space it suggests a
> rather small amount of money, even in large bills. Hiding your plastic card
> up there would be rather painful. Or does it suggest (as Freudians claimed)
> that, to the unconscious, money = shit?  Damien Broderick
>
> It's a polite way of saying the more common term "shitload of money."
>
> There was a humorous commercial: man is rushed to the hospital, facing down
> on the gurney, doctor pulls a bill out of his ass.  "This man has money
> coming out the wazoo.  Get him to a private room!"
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0_tfoTTGOQ
>
> spike
>
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