What exactly is a "shit eating grin?"

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

This phrase never made sense to me. Can someone shed some light?

[DarienComp]

1. "Shit-Eating Grin": see fig. 1

fig. 1

[jschurchin]

33. Bwahahahahahaha

Dude now thats funny.:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

36. I concur....

:rofl:

What an asshole.

[SOteric]

2. The kind of overdone, fakey grin one might put on

to obfuscate something really odious.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

4. Ah, well that clears some things up, I guess.

I suppose I'm just confused how anyone came up with this phrase. I don't really use it...probably because I didn;t really know what is meant but also because I think it sounds gross.

[SOteric]

5. Privately, I enjoy speculating that it may have evolved

from a Nipponese-inflected person observing a guy named Glen eating shiitakes.

[DS1]

6. ouch

[NoSheep]

29. long time no see your avatar! is that a panic button?

:hi: It's gotten worse, it has!

[TheProphetess]

25. ...

:spray:

[ET Awful]

10. Perhaps it came as a result of watching someone eat something

that was obviously nasty, but they faked a smile and pretended they enjoyed it strictly for appearance sake.

For instance, me eating my sisters cooking :evilgrin:

[anarch]

8. like this:

Incidentally, he can also go eat shit as far as I'm concerned.

[peekaloo]

20. Technically I think that's a pic of "grinning like a skunk eating shit".

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I'm assuming "shit eating grin" is a derivation or vice versa.

I always thought those phrases referred to a big ol' happy to see ya smile.

[NoSheep]

28. THAT is the epitome of the shit-eating-grin!

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. Similar to a 'cat-ate-the-canary' grin

It says, "Yeah, I'm a schmuck, but I'm hoping you don't realize it."

Just picture *; his is the classic shit-eating grin. Or, there's always his double, Alfred E. Newman.





Edit: Typo in Yiddish slang. :eyes:

[cassandra uprising]

7. That's deep Paul

Just do what I do and mix up parts of different catch phrases to make your own. If you say it with conviction most folks just smile and nod, unless your Chavez who generally points and laughs.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

13. He, good advice, CU.

:D

[Arkansas Granny]

9. In my neck of the woods the phrase is officially:

"Grinning like a possum eating shit". Don't ask me where it came from, but Bush's smirk is a very good example.

[formerrepuke]

11. Rent the movie 'Pink Flamingos'.. skip the entire film if you want, then

fast forward to the final scene.

[HughBeaumont]

14. The Girl Can't Help It.

People who watch this one for the first time have to take four showers to wash the resulting slime.

My favorite scene is when Lochary unveils the sausage cock extension to an unlikely laughing recipient in the park.

[freestyle]

38. John Waters films should be required viewing.

As a Baltimorean, I am terribly biased, but John Waters is the most twistedly funny film maker around. Divine's death was a truly sad day.

[elshiva]

40. As another Baltimorean, I miss Divine, too.

[Strong Atheist]

12. .

:evilgrin:

[jpgray]

15. You need to borrow some of RKZ's "movies"

[Orsino]

16. It's a grin so wide and so smug...

...that eating feces would not make the expression crack. It's reserved for a special brand of arrogance.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

24. I think you're probably on the mark with this def.

See why I'm confused? There are 5 or 6 different meanings in this thread alone...still I like yours the best.

[zanne]

17. And when someone is "built like a brick s...house"

What the hell does THAT mean?

[jpgray]

18. The added "shit" makes it funnier

It's like a bad webcomic that adds "whore" to the end of anything in an attempt to be funny. You stupid fucking whore.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

21. Pardon me, but I disagree jpgray, having used the phrase recently...

An outhouse is normally a wooden shed. A brick shithouse is an outhouse that is built extremely well and sturdily. :P

[jpgray]

23. You know what I do for fun?

I go to the pound and pick out a dog. Any dog. So it's not my dog, right? Then I go to the park and walk the damn thing around for a bit. I wait for a girl to come up and say "Oh my God, that is such a cute dog!" At that point I throw her the leash and run away, screaming "Then take it, whore!"

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

26. You shouldn't even joke about that.

:(

[tigereye]

41. ah

the world loves a smartass surrealist....

[zanne]

27. OK--Now I get it.

I actually wondered about that for years.

[patricia92243]

19. They have big breasts. n/t

[Deja Q]

30. What, no pics?

:rofl:

[Deja Q]

22. You're doing something you'd rather not do at all, but pretending to enjoy

it utterly.

[oneighty]

31. It is about dogs

If you ever had a dog and you saw your dog cleaning up cat poop you would see a true 'Shit eating grin'.

Ain't that right Spot?

180

[Skittles]

32. BWAAAHAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAA

HOWDY ED!!! :hi:

[oneighty]

34. Hey Skittles

((((((((((((((hug))))))))))))))

You know Spot too?

Hahahaha

Ed

[u4ic]

35. Here's another

I think the chimp's got more than a smirk here:

[freestyle]

37. Ask a dog. n/t

[DainBramaged]

39. Someone who enjoys eating shit. Like our royal shit eater

[jakefrep]

42. Somebody got drunk and fell in some shit...

...so sayeth George Carlin.