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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