filthy (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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The "shiz-nit" is pretty much always positive, isn't it?

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> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu>
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> > now i'm waiting for "shitty" to flip.
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> Don't people already say
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> "That's the shits!"
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> to mean
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> "That's great!"
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> ?
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