# Poo **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 22, 2005, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poo/300674 "2005-04-22T21:46:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Freejooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba8739/32.png) [@Freejooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freejooky)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poo/300674/1 "2005-04-22T21:46:59Z")
Look, I understand that Western Culture is rapidly devolving into a sort of adult-baby infancy, so I shouldn’t even be that upset, but I like the word “poop” - Shit, Feces. I like using it as an expletive, and frankly, to be funny. What I hate is “poo.” Right around the time that “South Park,” the second horseman of the unfunny apocalpyse, became popularized, I noticed people beginning to adopt its use of “poo” - a slightly more infantile version of “poop.” I guess it sounds “funnier” when said in one of those cookie-cutter sneering baby voices that made “South Park” appeal to the least comedically discriminating among us, but it fucking sucks. It makes you sound like an IDIOT, and lacks the panache of “poop.” That’s all. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poo/300674/2 "2005-04-22T21:52:15Z")
Bwa ha ha!! I just love this rant. But I gotta tell you, I’ve been guilty of this. Like when I’m really feeling an urgent need to go? “I gotta poo.” In just the right tone of voice, it cracks me up every time. I may not be normal, though. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poo/300674/3 "2005-04-22T21:54:12Z")
> [@](#): > > Look, I understand that Western Culture is rapidly devolving into a sort of adult-baby infancy, so I shouldn’t even be that upset, but I like the word “poop” - Shit, Feces. I like using it as an expletive, and frankly, to be funny. > > What I hate is “poo.” > > Right around the time that “South Park,” the second horseman of the unfunny apocalpyse, became popularized, I noticed people beginning to adopt its use of “poo” - a slightly more infantile version of “poop.” I guess it sounds “funnier” when said in one of those cookie-cutter sneering baby voices that made “South Park” appeal to the least comedically discriminating among us, but it fucking sucks. It makes you sound like an IDIOT, and lacks the panache of “poop.” > > That’s all. Poopoo. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poo/300674/4 "2005-04-23T00:32:50Z")
Thank you! I hate that expression. “Poo”. It sounds so stupid. Just say poop. It’s the same thing, but it doesn’t sound like babytalk. ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poo/300674/5 "2005-04-23T00:35:19Z")
If I poo on you, you will not move because it’s not serious? Ewww, bad choice! ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poo/300674/6 "2005-04-23T01:02:22Z")
I prefer caca or doody. Even better is cacadoody, long viewed by western scholars as the pinnacle of fecal comedy. ---
**Author:** ![Pride\_of\_the\_Peaches](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Pride\_of\_the\_Peaches](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pride_of_the_Peaches)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poo/300674/7 "2005-04-23T01:04:08Z")
But “poo” is so much more fun to say. Pooooooooooooooooo . . . you can keep going and going. Plus I don’t think that both “poop” and “poo” are pretty juvenile anyway so you may as well spare yourself that extra “p.” Hahaha, I said “pee.” ---
**Author:** ![Pride\_of\_the\_Peaches](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Pride\_of\_the\_Peaches](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pride_of_the_Peaches)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poo/300674/8 "2005-04-23T01:06:16Z")
Er, rather, I DO think that they’re both juvenile. All this potty talk must be causing my language abilities to regress. Hahaha, “potty.” ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poo/300674/9 "2005-04-23T01:17:35Z")
Poop itself is a lame euphemism. It is \*\*SHIT \*\* people! Or maybe **CRAP** , if there are wimmings and infinks in the room. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poo/300674/10 "2005-04-23T01:56:25Z")
“You know, if there’s one thing I’ve learned from being in the army, it’s never ignore a pooh-pooh. I knew a major: got pooh-poohed; made the mistake of ignoring the pooh-pooh – he pooh-poohed it. Fatal error, because it turned out all along that the soldier who pooh-poohed him had been pooh-poohing a lot of other officers, who pooh-poohed their pooh-poohs. In the end, we had to disband the regiment – morale totally destroyed … by pooh-pooh!” ---
**Author:** ![yBeayf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e274bd/32.png) [@yBeayf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yBeayf)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poo/300674/11 "2005-04-23T02:22:06Z")
Bah. “Poo” is by far the best euphemism for “shit”, and has a long and glorious history, going back long before South Park. I remember it being used quite commonly back in the glory days of alt.tasteless. What was that one poem that one time? > [@](#): > > Once upon a time when days were new > And no one enjoyed the taste of poo… Eh, I forget the rest. But poo rocks! ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poo/300674/12 "2005-04-23T02:35:08Z")
> [@Freejooky](#): > > It makes you sound like an IDIOT, and lacks the panache of “poop.” “Poop” has panache? ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poo/300674/13 "2005-04-23T03:40:59Z")
> [@scout1222](#): > > I may not be normal, though. 😉 No comment. 😉 Poo has its place, as do poop and shit, caca and feces, doodoo and crap, and all the other words for excretory functions. Embrace the fullness of the English language! ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poo/300674/14 "2005-04-23T15:27:11Z")
> [@Spatial Rift 47](#): > > “Poop” has panache? Oh, it’s got panache, baby! It’s got panache up the ying yang! ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poo/300674/15 "2005-04-23T15:38:59Z")
Geez folks, lighten up. How would you like to have “poo” as part of your name. Yes, I am talking about Winnie. No one ever sees it but Tigger insists on calling him Winnie the Crap or Winnie the Shit. And the time Winnie used Rabbit to wipe his behind, come on. Rabbit is the one that started it with the joke about nothing sticking to his fur. Plus the time Eeyore at the magic mushrooms and kept calling Winnie “Winnie the Cowpiedogturddoodoohead” was really uncalled for. I demand that this thread be locked immediately. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poo/300674/16 "2005-04-23T15:40:00Z")
That should be Eeyore **ate** the magic mushrooms. ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poo/300674/17 "2005-04-23T15:57:42Z")
These words are so fucking juvenile and to me, almost _offensive_. Blecch. Of course, I can’t just call it “shit” when I have kids according to my wife-can you imagine having a preschooler tell his teacher he has to take a shit? 🙂 Makes me laugh when I consider the phone call it would prompt… Sam ---
**Author:** ![Chimpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@Chimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimpy)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2005, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poo/300674/18 "2005-04-24T13:43:32Z")
> [@Dead Badger](#): > > “You know, if there’s one thing I’ve learned from being in the army, it’s never ignore a pooh-pooh. I knew a major: got pooh-poohed; made the mistake of ignoring the pooh-pooh – he pooh-poohed it. Fatal error, because it turned out all along that the soldier who pooh-poohed him had been pooh-poohing a lot of other officers, who pooh-poohed their pooh-poohs. In the end, we had to disband the regiment – morale totally destroyed … by pooh-pooh!” Why do I have an urge to go shoot carrier pidgeons now? ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2005, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poo/300674/19 "2005-04-24T18:20:44Z")
I always say “I’ve got to take a dump.” ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2005, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poo/300674/20 "2005-04-24T18:34:34Z")
When I was a kid, I thought “poo” was a bad word, so I washed my hair with sham-big-potty. No shit. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poo/300674.md?page=2)