10/17/2023 0 Comments Where did pee pee township come fromYou see, the original expression was not “piss like a racehorse,” but rather “piss like a horse.” The first known documented instance of this appears to be in Issues 6-7 (page 27) of the 1969 New American Review. (As no digital version of the book exists and I couldn’t get a hold of a copy (yet), we’ll leave that for now.)īut, in the end, it doesn’t necessarily matter in tracing the ultimate origin of the phrase if The Needles’ Balance was first. Further, if this is correct, it would place it a full decade before any more readily verifiable documented instance of the exact phrase. ![]() However, the somewhat suspect source for that does not provide any information on where in said book this occurs, nor what the exact text is. So when, specifically, is the first documented instance of this expression? It has been claimed that it was in Richard Le Mon’s 1972 poetry collection The Needles’ Balance. At this point, the combustion engine had long since supplanted horse power for transportation and other work, which is perhaps why there aren’t other variants that include things like “piss like a carriage horse” or “plow horse.” To begin with, a version of the expression was born sometime just after the mid-20th century. ![]() Although authoritative sources for the expression’s origins are non-existent, luckily, the tools of the modern world are at our fingertips to try to track down the origin and progression of this rather uncouth phrase. When most horses take a leak, it is a dramatic sight, with the stream typically about one-third to one-half an inch in diameter, creating a veritable “river” of urine that seems to have impressed some wordsmith sufficiently to coin the phrase, “piss like a (race)horse” – today denoting a full human bladder that needs emptied yesterday. Cantos asks: I was just wondering who came up with the expression “piss like a racehorse”?
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