new excremental proverb

[Jonathan Lighter]

Charlie, I meant to imply that that was the subsumed proverbial part:
"You can't pick up...."

JL

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

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> And interesting sudden-onset phenomenon, Jonathan, but I wouldn't call the
> statement a PROVERB: it has no general (or wider) applicability.  I would
> probably designate "pick up a turd by the clean end" as a proverbial phrase.
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> >Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 13:20:15 -0500
> >From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> >Subject:      new excremental proverb
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> >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."
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> >As of today, 120,000 raw Googlits (I searched under the principal phrase).
> News travels fast.
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> >JL
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