"You can't polish a turd"

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I doubt this is an "old Texas saying," but it goes back to at least 1992.
HDAS for "turd"?
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_MySA.com: Commentary_
(http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/stories/MYSA071606.3H.gurwitz.477fa9.html)   - 8:03pm     As an old Texas saying goes, you just
can't  polish a cow patty. And no matter how DeLay tries to exculpate
himself, the bottom line is this: the Sugar Land ...
www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/<WBR>stories/MYSA071
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_http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Can't+polish+a+turd_
(http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Can't+polish+a+turd)
_http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=you+can't+polish+a+turd_
(http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=you+can't+polish+a+turd)
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_Best games of all time_
(http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.video/browse_thread/thread/fd2374686487a6a5/43769ee170549185?lnk=st&q=&rnum=11&hl=en#4376
9ee170549185)        ... most Activision games, though, it's closed-ended; it
 stopped being fun once I could
get to 999999 points all the time.)  Vanguard 2 : you can't polish a turd.
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_rec.games.video_
(http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.video?lnk=sg&hl=en)  - Sep 26 1990, 3:11 am by Mark  Phaedrus - 42 messages - 32 authors
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_Heavy Metal_
(http://groups.google.com/group/bit.listserv.allmusic/browse_thread/thread/84aac320059b935b/1afa350dd34eab5a?lnk=st&q=&rnum=1&hl=en#1afa350dd3
4eab5a)        ... Has anyone ever heard the Texas based radio station
Z-ROCK?  Yes, Lee has. Seeya,
Gary "You can't polish  a terd, you will only get a dirty rag"
_bit.listserv.allmusic_
(http://groups.google.com/group/bit.listserv.allmusic?lnk=sg&hl=en)  - Nov 3 1992,  5:29 pm by gmget... at THAMA1.APGEA.ARMY.MIL - 14
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