ADDED: This story made me ask ChatGPT "What is the origin and history of the phrase 'Your ass is grass'?" It couldn't pinpoint the origin, but this part of the answer was amusingly AI:
🔹 Linguistic Features:
Ass: A longstanding vulgar slang term for a person, especially in a demeaning or aggressive context.
Grass: Used metaphorically here as something easily cut down, disposable, or unresisting.
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Who among us hasn't succumbed to foolish fashion?
"I tied an onion to my belt which was the style at the time."
Grandpa Simpson
This is why althouse is a daily must-read!
lololol. (photos or it dint happen!!)
Orcas are social, intelligent, terrifying predators who have long been known to play with their food. Chimpanzees are just disgusting, as are all all monkeys. And yes, I know the difference between apes and monkeys, but they're all monkeys to me. And yes, I see the irony in my screen name, but it derived from a cartoon, not a real gorilla.
"..."..The chimps, Brooker says, "have potentially copied it from a human who was walking by the enclosure, or one of the caregivers who was just going about their daily lives...."
So many questions. I notice there's no pictures, though.
I got grass in backside
I got stick too, I'm gonna use it
Chimpanzees, are so inventive
Gonna make you, make you, make you notice
"Who among us hasn't succumbed to foolish fashion?"
In order to succumb to it, I'd first have to notice it.
I wouldn't worry too much about this particular fetish unless they start putting gerbils up their butts as well.
Well, at least they didn't blame it on climate change. Right?
Proctologists and emergency personnel allegedly swap stories about the weirdest things that people have stuck in their butts. Knowing that it's all about fashion puts all this in a whole new light. It could be the next frontier after tattoos, nose rings, and genital piercing.
The book that Russell Baker didn't live long enough to write:
"There's a Country in My Anus."
An ass, a jack ass, a donkey, a Democrat?
In urban linguistics: an ass is a back... black hole... whore h/t NAACP at the intersection of racism and sexism.
The Book of the Subgenius (1983) had, among their prophecies for the near future, that there would be a fad among young people to walk around with a broomstick in their butts. Another foreseen fad was people having a large breasts implanted on their backs.
In the 70s, the comment was, "Your ass is grass -- and I'm the lawn mower!"
"Another foreseen fad was people having a large breasts implanted on their backs."
Those girls wouldn't be much to look at but would be a lot of fun to dance with.
There is a neighborhood nearby that has a herd of axis deer that graze on the lawns and bushes. I once saw one of the bucks with what looked like a vine wrapped around its horns. I don't know if the vine got there accidentally or if the buck adorned itself with the vine, but I think maybe the latter, because the buck was strutting by a group of does with its adorned head held erect. He walked along with very measured steps and kind of shimmied his head with each step, like some sort of cervine Rupaul.
Ass: A longstanding vulgar slang term for a person, especially in a demeaning or aggressive context.
Chat GPT got this wrong. You can call someone an ass, but to say "your ass" means a part of the person, not the total person. Ass, in this case means your backside.
I suspect "your ass is grass" comes from ch. 40 of Isaiah:
All flesh is grass,
and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth:
because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it:
surely the people is grass.
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth:
but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Brahms used a segment of the Lutheran version of Isaiah 40 as the text for one of the movements of his German Requiem--"Denn alles Fleisch es ist wie Gras."
And there's the classic hippy van bumper sticker--"Ass, Grass, or Gas. Nobody rides for free." Nothing about Assgrass, though.
“ONE GIRL, I DROVE THROUGH THREE STATES WEARING HER HEAD AS A HAT. Con Air • 1997“
https://clip.cafe/con-air-1997/one-girl/
Reminds me of the old retort to "Got a match?"
Maybe the chimps were celebrating Pride Month too.
Fish heads, fish heads, roly-poly fish heads...
Expect this to be among the celebrated outfits in Milan next year.
"Chimpanzees are just disgusting, as are all all monkeys. And yes, I know the difference between apes and monkeys, but they're all monkeys to me"
Orcas have a tail, so they too are monkeys.
https://youtu.be/--szrOHtR6U?
Monkey Mapplethorpe?
Your ass is grass, is similar to, you got your ass in trouble. Ass is effectively synonymous with yourself and grass is trouble.
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