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by Anonymous on May 24th, 2007

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Where did "blow smoke up your ass" come from - deed I ask?

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  • by BonesDoc on February 26th, 2010

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    During WWI, in the trenches, at night, the snipers would shoot at anyone that they could see above the level of the trench. The allies started using dummies to draw their fie and would then fire back at the muzzle flash. After a while the snipers got smart and waited to see a sign of life from the figure they saw so the allies ran a tube up the back leading to the mouth. They would push the dummy up enough to be seen and then blow smoke through the tube so that it looked like it was being blown out by the dummy and would shoot at it. Hence, "Don't blow smoke up my ass" meaning don't make me out to be a dummy.

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