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Posted By:
LukeJavan8
Jake
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06/29/09
05:10 PM
Here in the Great Plains it can also refer to the "outhouse",
or inside facilities, if one prefers.
Posted By:
HMDAD
Re: Jake
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06/29/09
05:50 PM
Spending many years in South-Central Kansas during Prohabition drinking too much 'Sneeky Pete' would get ypu a case of the 'Jake Leg'
Posted By:
zmjezhd
Re: Jake
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06/29/09
06:06 PM
Goes back a while, too. Elizabethan English called the outdoor privy the
jakes
.
Posted By:
LukeJavan8
Re: Jake
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06/30/09
04:48 PM
Originally Posted By: HMDAD
Spending many years in South-Central Kansas during Prohabition drinking too much 'Sneeky Pete' would get ypu a case of the 'Jake Leg'
Funny! thanks!
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