[Ads-l] "Looking to showcase women who do shit!"

[Dan Goncharoff]

But does he really know his shit?
On Feb 14, 2016 9:08 PM, "Scott" <harview at montana.com> wrote:

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> Poster:       Scott <harview at MONTANA.COM>
> Subject:      Re: "Looking to showcase women who do shit!"
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> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 07:16:22PM -0500, Laurence Horn wrote:
> > Seems more like "get shit done" is positive ("shit" = 'stuff').  "do
> shit" can be positive (even in "women who do shit") or negative ("it
> bothers me that someone who did shit in the Senate for umpteen years is now
> spouting off"  = '...nothing...').  But as with other squatitives, "know
> shit" seems to be pretty strongly negative, with or without an overt
> negator:
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> > He knows shit/squat/zilch/bupkis (about it).
> > He doesn't know shit/squat/zilch/bupkis (about it).
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> Sounds like you've got your shit together!
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