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Thu Aug-23-07 05:20 PM
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| What is the derivation/origination of "thumb up my ass?" |
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As in, "we did nothing but sit around with our thumb up our ass." As catchy a phrase as it is, it just seems like a school yard vulgarity which has been given more mileage than it deserves, though I admit I use it when I want to wake someone up.
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Thu Aug-23-07 05:23 PM
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| 1. Here's an unhelpful link: |
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http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/54/messages/452.html: : : We are really slow at work and I made the statement that I hated sitting around "with my thumb up my ass." And of course we were curious as to the origins of this expression.
: : :The meaning is pretty graphically clear that you can't be doing anything constructive with your whole hand if your thumb's up your arse.The thumb being the opposing digit may have something to do with its choice in the phrase.Other than that,I don't know when it first appeared or why.
: A more emphatic version of "sitting on your hands"... try not to think about "twiddling your thumbs" (^_^)
The extensive traditional repertoire of verbal abuse employed by British Army sergeants includes upbraiding the soldiers/cadets under one's command for sitting around "thumbs in bums and minds in neutral". (VSD)That "VSD" seems to reference some slang dictionary.
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Thu Aug-23-07 05:26 PM
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| 3. "thumbs in bums and minds in neutral." |
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Thu Aug-23-07 05:23 PM
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| 2. sitting on your hands...doing nothing...thumb up your ass |
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Thu Aug-23-07 05:29 PM
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| 4. You put your thumb up your ass when you want to wake someone up? How odd. |
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Thu Aug-23-07 05:33 PM
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| 7. No, you put your thumb up THEIR ass. |
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That'll usually wake someone right up.
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Thu Aug-23-07 05:34 PM
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| 8. It's a head turner, let me tell ya. |
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Thu Aug-23-07 05:41 PM
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Thu Aug-23-07 05:31 PM
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| 5. It started in a restaurant. |
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A man noticed his waitress had here thumb in his soup as she set it before him.
"Hey", he exclaimed, your thumb is in my SOUP!"
She replied, "yes, I know, there's a sore on it and the hot soup makes it feel better."
He inquired with some anger, "Why don't you just stick it up your ass?"
She answered, "Oh, I do when I'm back in the kitchen."
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Thu Aug-23-07 05:44 PM
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| 11. So glad I already ate dinner! |
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Thu Aug-23-07 05:31 PM
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| 6. Why didn't you just go to thumbupmyass.com? |
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What? You didn't think anyone would use that as a domain name?
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Thu Aug-23-07 05:36 PM
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| 9. It was ripe for abuse. |
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