How’s your old wazoo?

(some vulgar slang, but (I think) tolerable by kids and the sexually modest) Today’s (4/24) morning name, the final line of a quatrain I learned as boy lore about 1950: How’s your ma and how’s your pa And how’s your sister Sue? And while we’re on the subject, How’s your old wazoo? (#1) The family-wazoo rhyme; I didn’t know the quantity adverbial up the wazoo at the time, so I mistakenly took wazoo to be a variant of street slang dick / cock ‘penis’ That is, I took #1 (with How’s your old wazoo?, literally ‘how’s your ass?’, figuratively conveying ‘how are you?’) to be similar in import to: How’s your ma and how’s your pa And how’s your brother Rick / Rock? And while we’re on the subject, How’s your big ol’ dick / cock? (#2) The family-dick rhyme, with metonymy — the penis standing in for the whole man The family-wazoo rhyme. This has pronominal your wazoo ‘your ass’ (plus the affectionate modifier old), with the wazoo variant of what Beavers & Koontz-Garboden 2006 refer to as…