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Sh!t of Shinola - is they REALLY a difference?

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Mertle

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Jul 14, 2012
 
I can't really tell.
Shinola

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Jul 14, 2012
 
"don't know shit from shinola"

Its a colloquialism which dates back to the early 1940s in the United States. Shinola is a once-popular, now-defunct shoe polish brand, which had a color and texture not unlike feces; the joke in the idiom being that only a stupid person could confuse the two upon more than a passing glance.
Mabel PhD

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Jul 14, 2012
 
Other than taste and odor, one sure way to tell the difference was to observe which dried first. Shinola dried much faster than feces, hence in conversations "stepping in Shinola" never communicated dire circumstances as effectively as "stepping in shit".
PhD

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Jul 16, 2012
 
It does taste different.
Farmer Brown

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Jul 17, 2012
 
I was out at the fair today and stepped in some cow shinola
Bingo Bango Bongo

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Jul 24, 2012
 
This is the best Topix ever!

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