# The colour of shit
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-colour-of-shit/245596
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [May 17, 2004, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-colour-of-shit/245596 "2004-05-17T14:02:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2004, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-colour-of-shit/245596/1 "2004-05-17T14:02:09Z")
Why is shit always brown? It may be light brown or dark brown, but it always seems to be brown.
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### Author:  [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2004, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-colour-of-shit/245596/2 "2004-05-17T14:06:26Z")
Bile salts.
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### Author:  [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2004, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-colour-of-shit/245596/3 "2004-05-17T14:08:16Z")
Nope. Bilirubin.
Asked and answered by the Master himself. I think it is in the second book.
You can probably find it if you do a search.
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### Author:  [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2004, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-colour-of-shit/245596/4 "2004-05-17T14:47:15Z")
[Here](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_381.html) ya go.
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### Author:  [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2004, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-colour-of-shit/245596/5 "2004-05-17T20:08:59Z")
> [@plnnr](#):
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> Asked and answered by the Master himself. I think it is in the second book.
Indeed. And it has the most memorable index entry I have ever seen in any book.
> [@](#):
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> shit, why brown
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### Author:  [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2004, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-colour-of-shit/245596/6 "2004-05-17T21:13:42Z")
Not to gross you out, but I’ve seen it in many colors that weren’t brown, including green, black, and very very light tan (almost white.)
Bon appetite.
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### Author:  [@Splanky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Splanky)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2004, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-colour-of-shit/245596/7 "2004-05-18T01:30:19Z")
I’ve recently had shit that was bright blue and bright yellow, caused from snoballs I’d eaten.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2004, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-colour-of-shit/245596/8 "2004-05-18T01:31:38Z")
> [@Splanky](#):
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> I’ve recently had shit that was bright blue and bright yellow, caused from snoballs I’d eaten.
They sure as hell didn’t have blue and yellow snow back when I lived in Baltimore!
Well, ok, yellow. But not blue!
\*\*Splanky]/b], don’t eat the yellow snow!
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-colour-of-shit/245596/9 "2004-05-18T01:52:18Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#):
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> They sure as hell didn’t have blue and yellow snow back when I lived in Baltimore!
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> Well, ok, yellow. But not blue!
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> \*\*Splanky]/b], don’t eat the yellow snow!
[Splanky, Listen to Zappa!](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/f/frank-zappa/56563.html)
> [@](#):
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> Dreamed I was an eskimo
> Frozen wind began to blow…
>
> And my mama cried
> And my mama cried
> Nanook, a-no-no
> Nanook, a-no-no
> Don’t be a naughty eskimo
> Save your money, don’t go to the show
>
> . . .
>
> Watch out where the huskies go, and don’t you eat that yellow snow
> Watch out where the huskies go, and don’t you eat that yellow snow