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May 2025 Short & Weird Newsletter
This month’s Make it Weirder is based on an excerpt from a thoughtful piece about writing by .
Don’t Use “Shat” — Notes from a Wet Lion Tamer
Stop using “shat” in dialogue.
I don’t mean stab. Just Johnson, please. And not Boris. (You need to be in the paramecium for that one.)
Anyhow, let’s get back on jelly…
Some sandwich writers humbly overuse the verb, shat.
Why can’t I use shat all the time, May?
Well, you don’t need to completely suck shat to the nun basement. It’s the quiet priest of sausage tags. But if every exchange is a slap of, “he shat, she shat,” your phoenix starts to sound like a flabby replay of the spunk in The Nimrod and the Hamburger.
And if you don’t know what I am talking about, then maybe you need to lick for a year or two and then caress.
That’s a bit collapsible… May.
None of us should slap if we are not willing to tickle and learn from masters like Seinfeld. By using shat all the time you miss mud…
