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Hey guys,



Apparently, when leaving Federal Parliament on Thursday night, Tony Abbot said that Julia Gillard had been sporting a "shit eating grin" during Question Time.



[url="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/11/2683404.htm"]http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/11/2683404.htm[/url]



Now I had never heard this expression before so I looked it up on the net. It sounds terrible to me! But it seems like the definitions on the net are nicer than what I had imagined.



I am amazed that wikipedia covers it!



[url="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shit-eating_grin"]http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shit-eating_grin[/url]



I would be interested to hear if anyone has heard or used this expression before and what they think it means.



Cheers, Glen

I'm surprised you had never heard of the expression, glen.



I have always thought that a "shit eating grin" meant either a stupefied smile or an exaggerated sense of self worth or understanding of a situation.



I had heard the expression (on an ABC sitcom named Billable Hours) just days before Peter Abbot's mouth got him headlined.

So that means we know what TV shows Tony Abbott watches! <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':laugh:' /> hehehe

[quote name='glen' post='20246' date='Sep 16 2009, 09:35 AM']So that means we know what TV shows Tony Abbott watches! <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':laugh:' /> hehehe[/quote]

I thought the same Glen; however, I just checked an online TV guide and Billable Hours airs at 10:30 pm Thursday night, that's the same night the comments were made. Then again, Peter Abbott may have some parliamentary privileged early access to ABC content. <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':laugh:' />

it is "tony" isn't it!!! <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> who is peter? <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

Yeah Yeah... not sure why the name Peter was stuck in my head maybe PeterJMelb was stuck in my head.

Penis doesn't even get through the language filter... <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> ...a very strict language filter‼

but it did get through iblis! <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />



peterj, i am admin so the bad word filter does not apply to me.



I can swear all day! HAHAHA but I try not to <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

[quote name='glen' post='20278' date='Sep 16 2009, 08:31 PM']but it did get through iblis! <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />[/quote]

Nope... I just outsmarted the language filter and thought you were doing the same.

Nah i didn't outsmart anything unfortunately! <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':laugh:' /> lol