"I didn't know ...

[Wilson Gray]

whether to shit or go blind!"

I've been using this expression since I learned it ca.1959 in the
Army. The expression was new to *me,* at the time, but I got the
impression that it was an expression had been around for years. Yet,
to this day, people are still asking me what the fuck it means. So, it
occurred to me to google "shit or go blind." I was shocked to get
fewer than 800 raw hits, about half of them having to do with people
wondering what the expression means.

WTF?

-Wilson
--
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have
found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be
imposed upon them.

Frederick Douglass

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