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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman)
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Subject: Re: P.U.?
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Date: Thu, 27-Dec-84 20:16:46 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 27 20:16:46 1984
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[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