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From: willner@cfa.HARVARD.EDU (Steve Willner, OIR)
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Subject: Re: Jizz
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Date: 5 Sep 90 23:04:24 GMT
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> ...the term "jizz". I had never run across this term before,

From article <1990Sep1.231807.9059@nmt.edu>, by john@nmt.edu (John Shipman):
:> Apparently the term comes from
:> plane spotters in England in WWII, from the acronym GIS
:> (General Impression of Shape).  

For what it's worth, I read somewhere that the term is a contraction of
"just is."  (As in "Why is that bird a robin?"  "It just is!")  This may
be folk etymology, of course, since I don't remember where I read it.
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