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[Dave Monroe]

... well, perhaps it's all I CAN do, but I live to bibliographize:

Dundes, Alan.  Life is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder:
    A Study of German National Character Through Folklore.
    Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989.

The title comes from, apparently, an old German saying: "life is like a chicken coop ladder--short and shitty."  According to Dundes (at LEAST, and I am reminded of an interesting exchange betwixt Martin Luther and Sir Thomas More recounted in Stephen Greenblatt's Renaissance Self-Fashioning, not to mention Erik Erikson's Young Man Luther, which seems to attribute the Reformation largely to ML's ... irregularity), there's a certain interesting ... undercurrent, shall we say, in German culture.  Not that I personally want to argue the point (so if anyone has
any arguments, please, take them up with Prof. Dundes), but ... but one might also suggest the two volumes of Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies here, and, again, that Bakhtinian carnivalesque, with it's emphasis on the "lower material bodily strata" or whatever (Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World) ...

J Suete wrote:

> You know, as was walking through the Village today I heard some Germans arguing about a toilet. One was grumbling about a toilet that was emitting foul gas and the other one was arguing that it was the sink and not the toilet that was stinking up the place. Shit, shit, shit, they were saying, in German, of course. Then I realized that one man was an inspector of some sort and the other man was a manager or perhaps an owner of a restaurant. Shit, shit, they kept saying, and suddenly, death, death, death. Oh shit I thought, better not eat at that shit-house.
>
> Death is the word that comes up a lot in Gravity's R. Shit is the word that goes down a lot in life. Shit and death and life and shit I don't know. Paradoxical shit. In life is death. What a shitty thing to say even if it is the shit (truth).
>
> More shitty stuff for you sweetys:
>
> Shit is a marvelous word in English: it has an enormous number of uses and appears
> as a verb, a noun, an adverb -- and maybe other forms too. Here are some of its
> uses.
>
> shitter:
> Noun. The anus.
>
> shit:
>
> 1.verb: to defecate. Syn: bury a quaker; chuck a turd; clart; dispatch one's cargo;
> drop a load; go potty; grunt; lay some cable; make a deposit; pinch a loaf; poop;
> post a letter; scumber; squat; take a dump; take a shit
> 2.shit: feces - waste eliminated from the rectum. Syn: alley apple; baby ruth; brown
> round; ca-ca; cack; cow pucky; crap; dead soldier; doo-doo; dreck; dung; duty;
> hockey; horse dumpling; jack; meadow dressing; night soil; plot; poop; poo-poo;
> shit; turd;
>
> shit faced:
> very drunk ["Tom was so shit faced last night when the bar closed he took his
> clothes off in the alley and tried to walk home naked."]
>
> shit-fuck:
> synonym for anal intercourse
>
> shit the plug:
> to take a shit after anal intercourse .
>
> shitter: the rectal opening, anus; asshole.
>
> shitter:
> 1.a toilet
> 2.the rectal opening, anus; asshole
>
> One can be Bored shitless : very bored with Terrance's posts.  I doubt most can even understand half the shit the man has to say. On the end of the shit-stick, I don't read many posts that ask him to explain his shit.
> Brick shit house, built like a : big strong bloke
>
> Cat burying shit, as busy as a : busy, very busy.
>
> Raw prawn, to come the : to bullshit, to be generally disagreeable, like an Australian deconstructing kangaroo
>
> In VL we get shit creek : a creek in which water is rumored to be tainted with sewage, but also a creek you don't want to be up without a paddle.
>
>  shit da pants : an improperly toilet-trained child, or an expression of
> disapproval. "He knocked over his mom's best lamp and broke it. Da
> little shit da pants!"
>
> In the Bronx when the Yankees blow a five run lead, the fans say, the Yanks really shit the bed.
>
>
> shitload : a large quantity. "Our lad drank a shitload a' beer last
> night. Yo, was he plastered ever!"
>
>  shit don't stink : the expression "He thinks his shit don't stink!" is used
> to describe someone who thinks they are more important or sophisticated
> than they really are.
>
> Smoken sum shit: shit is also stuff, any stuff, like, get your shit (stuff, clothes etc.) off my bed or drugs.
>
> Shit, he's the cat's meow or it's great: He's the shits or it's the shits means cool or fun or exciting or special.
>
> shit
>
> The scientific name for being aroused by excrement is coprophilia, though games
> involving shit are known more commonly (and euphemistically) by the term scat
> (this word is derived from 'scatology', originally the medical practise of diagnosis
> through the inspection of faeces, from a Greek root that is cognate with English
> 'shit', though curiously enough 'scatology' was used in the 19th century to mean
> 'pornography' -- see McDonald 1996:129). The hanky code for shit is brown.
>
> Some people may find the shit itself a turn-on, others find it as repulsive as most
> people but get off on the degradation and humiliation of playing with it; it may also
> be linked to an interest in arseholes (see arseplay) as a sex organ. Shit games range
> from an interest in fucking shitty arseholes, through wanting to handle and be
> smeared in it to wanting to eat it, a practise known as coprophagy, perhaps as part
> of a submissive fantasy about being a toilet (see also rimming).
>
> Though having shit on unbroken skin can do little harm, there are some health risks
> attached to coprophagy, particularly involving the transmission of bacterial and yeast
> infections and viruses like hepatitis-B (although shit is not particularly a risk for HIV
> unless blood is present -- see safer sex). Some people act out these kinds of games
> as fantasy by substituting items like chocolate cake at the last moment.
>
> Shit can be holy, like holy shit means wow dudes.
>
> Pudding:  Melville's "Poor Man's Pudding" is shit, a poor man's wife bakes the shit and a wealthy man eats it. Now what does that tell you about Melville's sex life?