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Here’s a little-known etymological fact for you: the term “assclown” did not exist before 1990. It was specifically engineered by a team of Harvard linguists assigned to devise a shorthand description of Vanilla Ice. You see, at the time, no existing word quite did the trick. Sure, one could simply say he was an asshole, but there were lots of assholes around in the early '90s. One could describe him as “that fool in the baggy pants” or “that douche with the haircut,” but these are somewhat unwieldy phrases. Assclown says it all, really. Good work, Harvard linguists.

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