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 == ""The Shit"" == 

 I would like to add reference to the slang usage of ""the shit,"" as in ""My new car is the shit,"" that is ""good."" I know this usage is common in the United States. I need to research it's use in this way in other parts of the Anglosphere. —   

  
 ==Bullshit== 

 Someone can also be said to be 'chatting shit' or 'talking out of their arse' if they are indeed bullshitting or talking bollocks - in this sense the addressee is believed to be lying or 'making shit up'. The clean version of this would be 'chat egg', something else which is deemed quite smelly. 'I smell shit' or 'I smell bull' are phrases used to unveil a bullshitter, but can be commonly cleaned up to 'can you smell something?' or 'it's starting to smell a bit over here' as a joke between two people that are listening to someone talk out of their arse - usualy bigging themselves up to sound like 'the shit'. Nialligimino 

 ==Shit a Brick== 

 If someone is 'shitting bricks' then they can be scared or nervous or this is also used to mean constipated. Also, someone might say ""fuck that shit"" referring to something they are not going to do, because it is either a menial task, something they cannot be botehred to do or something they are scared of - Fuck that shit man I can't be bother to do that or fuck that shit - I don't wanna die! Nialligimino 

 == Why is this page here? == 
 Because it's funny to define Shit? This is an encyclopedia, not a dictionary. What here is worthy of being an encyclopedia entry? Definitions and etymology? 

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 == Joke? == 

 Was this page intentionfully made to look like a South Park episode? 
 :I'm sorry, but no. Any resemblance this page has to South Park is entirely coincidental.    

 == French usage of ""merde"" as ""good luck"" == 

 Under ""break a leg,"" a common expression among artists for ""good luck,"" one also finds the French word ""merde."" I can confidently state this is still in use in the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec.  

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 == Shit or S.H.I.T. == 

 As I understand it, the word SHIT was derived from the days of the old sailing vessels when manure was sent overseas 
 to help with cultivating crops. Because of the combustible nature of the bagged product it was recommended it be stored 
 on top of the other cargo, thus enabling it to be extinguished or thrown overboard should it catch fire. The bags were 
 thus stamped S.H.I.T  (Store High In Transit).  
 I would welcome any comments supporting this or otherwise!!! 

 Thanks, 

 Mick — Preceding unsigned comment added by   •   

 :We've seen this before, and it sounds delightful. If you can find a reference for it in a reliable source it can be added to the article with pleasure. You can add it yourself if you have such a reference. I suspect it would need to be away from the main derivation/etymology, since it appears to be a folk take. DOn;t add it without such a source though. It was wise to place it here, on the talk page rather than in the article itself.     
 ::I doubt the word itself originated from it, though. Sounds like something for the ""Backronym"" section. [[Special:Contributions/70.72.