new excremental proverb

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The earliest appears to be on Usenet from mid 2005: "Political correctness
> is based on the principle that it's possible to pick up a turd by the clean
> end."
>
> As of today, 120,000 raw Googlits (I searched under the principal phrase).
> News travels fast.

Nov. 2002 here:
http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/p-updating-photoshop-7-post2197/postcount4


--Ben Zimmer

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