Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site gloria.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!rocksanne!sunybcs!gloria!colonel From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: P.U.? Message-ID: <747@gloria.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Dec-84 20:16:46 EST Article-I.D.: gloria.747 Posted: Thu Dec 27 20:16:46 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 31-Dec-84 01:58:06 EST References: <602@asgb.UUCP> Organization: SUNY-Buffalo Confuser Science Lines: 17 [Down went Pew, with a cry that rang into the night ... ] > While in the course of discussing lofty and important things, > a person wondered what does "PU" stand for? It's one of the > first thing kids learn when visiting strange Uncle Ralph or > when someone had beans the previous night. > > So, is it a farming term -- Pungent Udders, Putrid Ewes (-: > Or is it derived from Latin/Greek origins -- Pungentus Udderusess. > Ecclesiastical start -- after all, people sit in pews.... Probably just a member of the {fie, pfui, phooey, ... } family. Though I recall an old Warner Bros. cartoon in which it meant "Pimento Uni- versity." -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel