So.....sorry to pause the action right now but....why bogarting? Did Humphrey Bogart eat a lot? Is this in reference to another Bogart? I'm not understanding this term....
So.....sorry to pause the action right now but....why bogarting? Did Humphrey Bogart eat a lot? Is this in reference to another Bogart? I'm not understanding this term....
Are you an engineer?
My boss is like that, always wants to know how to build a watch instead of what he really asks...What time is it?
5'4" 45 yrs (F) a.k.a. "Butterbean" Start date 5/18/2003 197/163.5/130
From: Chris J. Strolin (haveaknifedayATyahoo.com)
Subject: Bogart - The true original meaning
While "to bogart" now means "to hog or take more than one's share," (largely because of the song lyric "Don't bogart that joint, m' friend. Pass it over to me again.") this is only because so many people have gotten it wrong for so many years. One of the great misunderstood slang phrases of my youth, "to bogart a joint" originally meant to dangle a marijuana cigarette from your lips in the same manner Humphrey Bogart would do with a regular cigarette while eyeing a sultry Lauren Bacall from across a smoky bar room. With the lit end pointing downward this way, the joint would burn much more rapidly and, worse, would do so to no one's benefit. Speaking from personal experience, the social crime involved was not in hogging the marijuana but in wasting it! (Of course, should any prospective future employers be AWAD subscribers, this info came from ne'er-do-well friends of my older brother.)
5'4" 45 yrs (F) a.k.a. "Butterbean" Start date 5/18/2003 197/163.5/130
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