Never could figure that one out.
Some context please?
Its part of a song.
Dunno who sang it. Can’t even remember the words except for that stupid line.
It’s an old song by Little Jimmy Dickens.
Basically, the singer is a notorius cheapskate whose “victims” insult him with these lines:
So it’s a radio-safe way of saying “Bite Me.”
Clear as mud?
It’s from a country-western song popular in the Seventies… “May the bird of paradise fly up your nose.”
It was a sort of backhanded good tiding, like “May you live in interesting times.”
And that’s about as interesting as it gets.
The song came from 1965, As this article shows, the lyrics went international. A decade later, it would have been “Up your nose with a rubber hose”.
Didn’t it start as a catch-line by Johnny Carson, before the song?
I seem to remember it as a catch phrase delivered by Dick Martin on Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In in the late 1960s.
Eve, knowing Johnny Carson, this is probably one of the many lines, routines, jokes, etc he outright stole.