"can't say crap w/mouthful"

[Jonathan Lighter]

I read only selected books.

  JL

Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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Not only have I not seen it in print before, but I've also only
extremely rarely heard it in speech. What kinds of books do you read,
Jon? ;-) But, seriously, folks, my WAG is that the expression is just
not used in BE, for whatever reason.

-Wilson

On 8/24/06, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> Wilson, your version began appearing in print in the sixties.
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> JL
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> Wilson Gray wrote:
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> From an e-mail to the editor of ZDNet Announcements, 08/23/06.
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> Though I've known a version of this -
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> "wouldn't say 'shit,' if he had a mouthful"
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> - for about half a century, this is the first time that I've seen it
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> -Wilson
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