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LanternWaste

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1. I read that thread and think 'bullshit' is far too significant a word. If I may...

Reply to Kind of Blue (Original post)

Mon Nov 5, 2018, 03:10 PM

Nov 2018

“Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and reduces the serious to the trivial...”

Stephen Ambrose.

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Don't fall for the bullshit why Lynchburg is aptly named [View all] Kind of Blue Nov 2018 OP

I read that thread and think 'bullshit' is far too significant a word. If I may... LanternWaste Nov 2018 #1

"reduces the serious to the trivial." Kind of Blue Nov 2018 #2