When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- George Foreman, (Jan 10 1949-____), US boxer; He won the gold medal at the 1968 Olympics; pro heavyweight champ, 1973-1974; made comeback, 1987.