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McCoovy t1_japstxp wrote

Reply to comment by Greene_Mr in TIL "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps" is an example of an impossible task. The idiom dates at least to 1834, from the Workingman's Advocate: "It is conjectured that Mr. Murphee will now be enabled to hand himself over the Cumberland river or a barn yard fence by the straps of his boots. by meat-juice

So did mozart. You can take my copy of ragged dick from my cold dead hands.

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Greene_Mr t1_japt2h5 wrote

Don'cha just hate it when ya've got a ragged penis?

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