HI! SHIT HAPPENS, SO LET'S MAKE IT LOOK PLEASENT

Della serie pensierini visivi: / From the little visual thought series:

As IT happens, and we cannot do anything about it...let make it look pleasent.

Font: Lubalin inspired.

 A short "Did you know that..?" about this this phrase.

         

The Professor Behind The First Printed Use of ‘Shit Happens’

Connie Eble’s annual list of catchphrases that she compiles from her students at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill included a new entry in 1983: “Shit happens.”

An unnamed female student wrote the phrase on an index card in Eble’s English class, apparently inspired by a someone who had flunked a test. “That shit happens,” he said.

That index card would become the first published use of the phrase, according to 2006’s Yale Book of Quotations.

The phrase has become ingrained in American culture, helped along by music, movies (Forrest Gump, among others), and books.

Eble, though, seems bemused to be forever tied to it.

“Will this never die? I didn’t come up with it—it just so happened that my list was the earliest citation. And now it’s become sort of an urban myth.”

 

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