[lbo-talk] LBO-talk Fundrace

[snit snat]

At 04:35 PM 7/16/2004, Carl Remick wrote:
>>From: snit snat <snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com>
>>
>>Pass the bong!That must be some mighty fine weed you be smokin' there 
>>Yoshie. Quit bogarting it and share. After all, it's Friday with a Capital F!
>
>I'm one toke over the overpost line here, but it's Friday as you note, so 
>what the heck.
>
>I have a technical quibble.  I don't think it's correct to use "bogarting" 
>in conjunction with "bong."  "Bogarting" derives from H. Bogart's habit of 
>letting a cigarette dangle from his lip, and strictly speaking it should 
>refer only to the wasteful practice of letting a burning *joint* dangle 
>from the lip.  A bong is a pipe that is typically very unwieldy and does 
>not lend itself to lip-dangling.
>
>Carl

Ok. So I should have told her to put down the blunt. :) I always wondered 
where the expression came from. Hey, when you're high, you wonder about 
that sort of thing. I think, though, given the nature of slang, that it has 
transmogrified to simply mean monopolizing something. In the old 'hood, 
people would say, "Quit bogarting the ramen." (There was a fad for awhile: 
eating raw ramen noodles. They keep them in the package sleeve and munch away.)

k

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