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EdipisReks
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i've heard "screw the pooch" all my life, half of which was in west palm beach, florida and the other half in cincinnati, ohio.

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First of Two
Better than you
Member # 16

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I remember hearing that phrase in "The Right Stuff" about Grissom's Mercury mission. I thought it meant 'sink the capsule.'

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Ritten
A Terrible & Sick leek
Member # 417

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I picked it up in the army, as a term for fucking thing up...

Like a goat rope being a cluster fuck....

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TSN
I'm... from Earth.
Member # 31

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I've never heard that one. But, then, one time I used "clusterfuck" on the 'net, and people didn't understand it.

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MinutiaeMan
Living the Geeky Dream
Member # 444

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I don't have a reference, but I read that an air force pilot who "screwed the pooch" had died in a test flight crash. That probably spread to the regular air force for "Top Gun" and then got more popular later on.

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