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Comment by smallmancontrov

8 hours ago

Does a bear shit in the woods?

Interesting, where are you from? Where does this proverb come from?

I know this proverb as (translating from Polish): You're asking the boar if he's shitting in the forest.

  • It's an extremely common phrase in the US, along with "Is the Pope Catholic?" Sometimes the two phrases are humorously mixed together.

    • I've never heard it mixed (not from US)...

      "Is bear a Catholic?" doesn't seem very funny.

      But a notion that everyone knows how Pope is regularly shitting in the woods absolutely is :)