[Ads-l] shits 'diarrhea'

[Wilson Gray]

Ain't that the shits?!

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 4:13 PM, Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Heh. I read the subject line as if "'diarrhea'" were the direct object.
>
> Mark
>
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 2:26 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > Early:
> >
> > 1864 in _Georgia Historical Qly._ LXX (1986) 707: I expect to be as tough
> > as a knot as soon as I get over the Georgia shitts [sic].
> >
> >
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