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Mar. 24th, 2003 03:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Just when did bovine excrement become our universal metaphor for deception? The connection between the two escapes me. Certainly both are undesirable, and I suppose the intuition used to detect deception can be better expressed as "smell" than as any other sense. But it doesn't seem like a natural progression to me.
I must know, because whoever is responsible for "bullshit" is also indirectly responsible for "shit-eating grin".
I must know, because whoever is responsible for "bullshit" is also indirectly responsible for "shit-eating grin".