Literally.
I really hate coming into something midway. Meetings. Conversations. TV shows.
After taking the trash out, I turned on "Mythbusters". They were talking about baking and then polishing animal dung. I'm not sure I want to know what this myth was about.
And then there was the other myth, about "hitting the ground running". You know folks? Sometimes a "myth" is just a colorful metaphor.
Iz out!
2 months ago
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You know, a show about "myths," can only be on so long before crap like this pops up. They were testing the "you can't polish shit" saying.
What's great though is that the narrator pretty much said what you did, toward the end of the show -- "sometimes an idiom is just an idiom."
Though they proved that you can, in fact, polish shit.
I have never heard that expression.
But now that they have done this, I wonder how many people will mail in a suggestion of "shit-eating grin"?
Myth?
Yeth?
Yeah, I was wondering about that idiom. I'd never heard it either, but they acted like "You can't polish shit" was a common saying.
I will say the concept of making the dorodongo was cool. Though I wouldn't do it out of poop, that's just unsanitary. (I had seen an article in a craftsperson's magazine on dorodongo about a year ago, so it struck me as interesting that they used that technique.)
Maybe I'm just in a cynical mood today, but it does seem to me that it IS possible to polish shit; it seems to happen every day - maybe not literal crap being polished, but certainly crap work being treated like it's awfully nice and shiny.
Hmm. I heard it a lot throughout my life -- perhaps because the military's full of people from all over, sayings get tossed around more. I don't know.
You can't polish shit, pearls on swine, lipstick on a pig ... variations of a theme.
w/v: bedstro - Destro's older, furniture-selling brother.
Maybe my family was too genteel; they said stuff like, "you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear" which means basically the same thing.
Now that I say that, I'm really glad the Mythbusters didn't take THAT one on....
Yeah, I've heard some of the others, but not this particular one.
But then again, I've never heard of dorodongo or bedstro, either.
I've heard the "polishing a turd" expression before, but "dorodongo"? Sounds like the title of an adult film.
Ooh, Kate!
You vixen!
Well, there's something no one's ever called me before. This is a red letter day. :)
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