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jacking it in San Diego
[ jak-ing it in san dee-ey-goh ]
What does jacking it in San Diego mean?
Featured in a song on the animated TV show South Park, jacking it in San Diego means, put bluntly, masturbating publicly in the city of San Diego, California.
Where does jacking it in San Diego come from?
Jacking it in San Diego was created for the 2012 episode of the Comedy Central animated TV show South Park. The episode, “Butterballs,” satirized director Jason Russell, who rose to fame with his organization Invisible Children and film Kony 2012—and fell into infamy after he suffered a breakdown in 2012 and was found wandering the streets of San Diego naked, shouting obscenities and masturbating (“jacking it”).
In the South Park episode, the character Stan produces a music video that features a character being paraded around the city of San Diego naked. The lyrics prominently feature the line jacking it in San Diego.
Examples of jacking it in San Diego
Who uses jacking it in San Diego?
Jacking it in San Diego is often used in reference to the South Park episode. However, some may use the phrase more generally to describe a public figure cracking under pressure.
So at this point Elon Musk is like 2, maybe 3 days away from publicly jacking it in San Diego, isn’t he?
— zach vasquez (@zach_vasquez) July 15, 2018
TJ Miller is having a "jacking it in San Diego" moment.
— 💣 shackleton 💣 (@shackle_ton) April 11, 2018
The South Park episode became so popular that people began to use the phrase to describe Jason Russell’s breakdown, the very incident that inspired the phrase.
WHEN I GET OLD AND LIFE LOSES ITS LUSTRE(?) I HOPE TO GO OUT NAKED & JACKING IT IN SAN DIEGO LIKE THAT KONY GUY
— Hooting Season 🍂 (@HunsV) July 5, 2018
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