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Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:

[...]

> > It's actually "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world,
> > she walks into mine."  Hence, "Don't Bogart that joint, my friend."
> > 
> 
>       Actually it was applied to Bogies smoking style with a cigarette hanging
> from his lower lip.  I think he did it in real life as well.  To "Bogart
> that joint" means to hog the use of a rolled marijuana cigarette.
> 

Yes, I agree that's the meaning, but IMO the idiom arises from Bogart's
use of "joint" in that quotation rather than the way he stuck his ciggie
to his lower lip.  I'm a (former) pot-smokin' hippie layabout too!

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