posted September 20, 2002 06:08 PM
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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posted September 20, 2002 10:04 PM
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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posted September 27, 2002 06:41 AM
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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posted September 28, 2002 07:43 AM
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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posted September 28, 2002 08:28 AM
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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