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| 530.1 | Sh*t? never heard of it. | PSTJTT::TABER | Touch-sensitive software engineering | Wed Jun 08 1988 21:38 | 19 |
| If you're too timid to use the word "shit" (which has a long, honored
history in English) then you probably shouldn't try to use the phrase.
<lunch warning>
Imagry in the rest of the reply may offend the recently fed...
I've never run across the phrase "sh*t-eating grin" before, but
it's probably a derivitive of "shit-eating grin" which itself probably
derives from the phrase "grinning like a shit-eating dog" from "happy as
a dog eating shit" The latter two are very popular in the South and
refers to a habit that anyone who has seen a dog with its head buried in
a cat's litter box and it's tail wagging in ecstasy is familiar with.
"Grinning" is probably hyperbole on the part of the originator of the
phrase referring not to the dog, which doesn't grin at all, but to the
person to whom it gets applied.
>>>==>PStJTT
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| 530.2 | Grinning dogs | SMURF::BINDER | A complicated and secret quotidian existence | Thu Jun 09 1988 00:00 | 13 |
| Re: .1
Patrick, you must never have seen a dog that was fairly excited. The
mouth is opened and the lips are drawn back to an appearance that looks
quite like a grin.
I'v seen dogs with their noses buried in other dogs' shit that looked as
much as if they were grinning as Alfred E. Neuman does. Probably for
similar mindless reasons...
- Dick
PS. Your explanation seems reasonable.
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| 530.3 | similar expressions | VOLGA::B_REINKE | where the sidewalk ends | Thu Jun 09 1988 05:22 | 10 |
| To me the expression also relates a bit to the cheshire cat
smile and the cat eating the canary smile...
kind of a smile when one knows you've gotten away with something
nasty...
and yes, my dog does grin (and stink!!) after a raid on the cat
box!
Bonnie
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| 530.4 | And yet another explanation | VAXRT::CANNOY | Down the river of Night's dreaming | Thu Jun 09 1988 19:14 | 8 |
| I'd always heard it was a shortening of the phrase
"a grin like a fox eating shit out of a wire-haired brush",
implying that the fox must pull its lips way back to expose its
teeth, so that it may succeed at its task.
Tamzen
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| 530.5 | put more : the fire, please ~ cows come home | VIDEO::OSMAN | type video::user$7:[osman]eric.vt240 | Fri Jun 10 1988 17:03 | 14 |
| I asked someone about whether I should continue to use the term
sh*t
or whether it was safe to use the real word instead. They warned me:
You'd be an ass to risk it.
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I hope my little pun makes your day!
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| 530.6 | Go ahead, PUN_k, make my day! | DR::BLINN | Put a REAL pinhead in the Oval Office! | Sat Jun 11 1988 00:04 | 0 |
| 530.7 | Snack Time On The Farm | RIGAZI::SPERANDIO | | Thu Aug 24 1989 18:26 | 6 |
| A friend of mine is a nurse in a mental hospital. He says that it is not
uncommon for some types of patient to eat shit. These poor souls are always
grinning when found with their faces smeared. Records of this activity go back
to medieval times. Maybe this is source of the term.
- Skeezix
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| 530.8 | Might be considered in poor taste... | NSDC::RATCLIFF | Heisenberg may have been here | Wed Sep 13 1989 15:44 | 9 |
| Re .7
In the diary of the de Goncourt brothers (of literary (or litterary)
prize fame),
(Warning: might be considered in poor taste),
hence <FF>
speaking of a coprophagist: "He said shit disgusted him since
the day he found a hair in it".
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| 530.9 | Warning: Warning may be in poor taste. | CAM::MAZUR | It ain't the meat, it's the lotion. | Wed Sep 13 1989 16:05 | 8 |
| re: .8
>(Warning: might be considered in poor taste),
I thought the warning was funny enough.
-Paul
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