filthy

[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
> now i'm waiting for "shitty" to flip.

Don't people already say

"That's the shits!"

to mean

"That's great!"

?

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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