Eat Shit and Die!!

A certain someone told me to eat shit and die today and it got me thinking... where on earth did that phrase come from. I imagine that eating shit is a pretty horrific experience. It is certainly something that I would never want to experience. As Greg mentioned earlier, it was probubly a form of mideval torture. Something that I would not be surprised about, but also one of the many accumilating reasons why I am thankful that I was not born into that time period. I may have grown up wishing I was a princess (with special powers) in a castle, but even as a princess I believe that the living conditions would be far below sub-par for my standards. People actually through their feces out into the streets where pedestrians were walking. Perhaps that is where the phrase eat shit came from.

However, this still does not explain where the "and die" part comes from. The only thing worse than eating shit is to die. Although if I had to actually chose between eating shit and dying I would probubly chose to die. So who put these two horrid acts together into one phrase? These curses alone are a face worse than death, and death so why combine them. I think that their combination is overkill. Whomever put these curses together was just showing off how harshly they could curse an individual. EAT SHIT AND DIE!

Now that I am examining this curse... why this has held my attention to this great an extent is beyond me... it doesn't really make sense. As I was saying before, the curse "eat shit" is a fate that I would consider worse than death, therefor if you followed a curse that is worse than death with death are you not alleviating the subject of your curse's pain? Is this not a contradiction? Wouldn't you want them to suffer continuosly, not briefly. I think the far worse curse is "live and eat shit," but that's just my oppinion. Maybe others would disagree.