Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/10/12/bookmarket-reveals-marketing-j.html
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I think I like that version better. Although, “bullshit” does seem to have the ability to serve as almost any part of speech, much like “buffalo”.
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It helps if you replace each “buffalo” with another word having a similar meaning: “Albany bison Albany bison bully, bully Albany bison.”
“bullshit” doesn’t work here because as a noun it’s not plural, so if it’s the subject of a sentence then the verb would have to be conjugated as “bullshits”:
“Bullshit bullshit bullshit bullshit bullshits bullshits bullshit bullshit”
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Bullshit is the old jawn.
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Whoa, hold on now: to say Albany is similar in meaning to Buffalo is like saying Utica is similar in meaning to Syracuse—clearly the right synonym is Rochester! 
But if you really need an Upstate synecdoche, you can’t go wrong with Schenectady 
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Ha - I knew somebody would call me out on that… I just picked the first city in New York that came to mind (and avoids the confusing name “New York, New York”) 
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/jazz hands
Whaddaya say? Schenectady!
Say it again? Synecdoche!
/orchestral flourish, kickline dancers move across stage…
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I wonder if it works on Artspeak?
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Lets not forget another special versatile word.
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When used as a noun, that’s true! But mass nouns agree with the singular form of verbs. And the singular form of “(to) bullshit” is “(he, she, it) bullshits”.
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True, but “Bullshit bullshit bullshit” can be a grammatically correct sentence if the second word is parsed as a verb in the simple past tense (though I personally prefer to use bullshat).
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@beschizza how can we get this applied to the BB Store posts? I think the results would be… educational.
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I like “bullshat”. But surely the standard past tense would be “bullshitted”, no?
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If ony the fucking fuckers had fucking spelt fucking ‘sentence’ fucking correctly! (Around 1.19)
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