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Where is the Random Thread of Randomness stuff that doesn't belong in other threads thread?

Volpone said:
Why is a big goofy mischievous smile called a "shit-eating grin"? I don't think anyone has ever looked happy to be eating shit. Or is it the grin you get as you watch someone you've pranked eat shit? I guess that would make sense.
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In Book XXI of his History of Rome, Livy describes a Carthaginian sect of coprophages, the risus faecivorus, or shit-eating grin, being commonly displayed by its adherents.
 
I had one that got in the house and was walking around on the floor. Was in the middle of feeding and/or watering the cat and dog and was going to do it as soon as my hands were free. By then he wasn't there anymore. Found a dead one by the door this morning. Dunno if it was the same one or not. Same thing.
 
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