Did Rush just say that?

[1raider1]

Just heard Rush say, "Obama could say. 'The BUCK stops here.'". concerning TSA pat downs. I wonder if he will catch flak for it?

[lonestar]

Maybe you’re too young to remember, but at one time black males were referred as bucks.

I thought of Harry Truman...and trust me, I'm old enough and remember. LOL!

[Poincare]

from trumanlibrary.org:

The saying “the buck stops here” derives from the slang expression “pass the buck” which means passing the responsibility on to someone else. The latter expression is said to have originated with the game of poker, in which a marker or counter, frequently in frontier days a knife with a buckhorn handle, was used to indicate the person whose turn it was to deal. If the player did not wish to deal he could pass the responsibility by passing the “buck,” as the counter came to be called, to the next player.*

[Onceasoverigncitizen]

It is true “buck” has many meanings and implications, however, if Obama’s likeness is ever put on a dollar bill, you will never be able to refer to it as a “buck” again.

[davetex]

Just to clarify, a “Hoe Dee Doe” where I’m from is a wedge of wood cut off the end of a 2x4 to keep a door from closing. Just like the plastic/rubber ones we used to buy years ago.

As in....gimmie that hoe dee doe, I gotta get the groceries inside.

[Rippin]

Had forgotten that! How many times I’ve read that too, but not in the past 20 years.

[itsahoot]

Baloney, all fit young males have been called bucks

Sorry but you must be misremembering. I grew up in a 100% white county, never heard any white boy referred to as a buck. Be sure and take a life preserver when you go overboard.

[aruanan]

Buck is an obsolete term for a black man with a great physique.

Well, then, the buck never got to Barry, though it probably came close any number of times.

[aruanan]

Buck is an obsolete term for a black man with a great physique.

"Buck" has been used to refer to many different groups of people, only one member of one such group was black (OED):

b. A gay, dashing fellow; a dandy, fop, ‘fast’ man. Used also as a form of familiar address.

c. slang. (see quot.) 1851 MAYHEW Lond. Labour 362 (Hoppe) The bucks are unlicensed cabdrivers who are employed by those who have a license to take charge of the cab while the regular drivers are at their meals.

d. A man: applied to native Indians of S. America, and to any male Indian, Negro, or Aboriginal. So buck Aborigine, Indian, Maori, Negro, nigger. Also (illogically) buck-woman. Chiefly U.S.

Interesting is the origin of pass the buck, which doesn't have anything to do with a unit of money:

An article used in the game of poker; to pass the buck (see quot. 1887). U.S. 1865 Weekly New Mexican 14 July 1/3 They draw at the commissary, and at poker after they have passed the ‘buck’. 1872 ‘MARK TWAIN’ Roughing It xlvii. 332, I reckon I can't call that hand. Ante and pass the buck. 1887 J. W. KELLER Draw Poker 38 They resort to the bold and ludicrous experiment of ‘passing the buck’. The ‘buck’ is any inanimate object, usually knife or pencil, which is thrown into a jack pot and temporarily taken by the winner of the pot. Whenever the deal reaches the holder of the ‘buck’, a new jack pot must be made.