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- From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: More English Excrement
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 07:14 PST
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- > "shit-eating grin". I've never really understood what particular sort
- > of grin this is, nor why someone eating shit would be grinning. Any thoughts?
-
- A big fatuous egg-sucking Carl Sagan kind of grin that says "everything
- is going just ducky in my world at the moment, and for a reason you'd
- never guess and might not approve of." I think it has to have elements
- of a smirk in it.
-
- When a picture was being taken of people, my father, who grew up on a farm
- in Illinois, used to say, "Grin like a possum eatin' s. out of a dead horse."
- Believe me, it worked a lot better, or at least more dramatically, than the
- usual "Say cheese."
-
- Happy holidays,
- Joe
- "Broken English is the official language of science"
- Francois Kourilsky, CRNS
-