more shit
Paul Mackin
pmackin at clark.net
Mon Aug 7 19:42:21 CDT 2000
Here's another one my friend's grandmother used to say to her when
she was a little girl because she ate a lot but was still
anorectically (sp) thin. Kathleen, you eat yourself fat and shit yourself
thin.
Too literal I know.
P.
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Steve Maas wrote:
> >Have we covered "up shit creek"?
>
> "...without an oar, a lifejacket, or a spoon," to complete the quote as I
> learned it.
> Also, "I Live on Shit Creek" by the Bad Livers, a sort of trash-thrash
> country group, quite good really.
>
> A most useful lesson from early in my planning career. My boss pointed out
> that I was spending too much time on details in writing a report that would
> be ignored due to that ol' bugaboo "political sensitivites" (your tax
> dollars at work!) thusly: "You can't polish a turd."
>
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