VIDEO: Polishing a Turd (Yes, you can!)

Discovery Channel website ^ | 4/19/2009 | MythBusters

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This is a 5-minute video of MythBusters learning, and demonstrating, the Japanese art of "dorodungo" -- how to take real animal poo, and with a lot of work, make a high-gloss ball a few inches in diameter.

In other words, they show how to "polish a turd".

The political implications of this process, especially with regard to how the media spin-meisters treat recent administration screw-ups and related events, were inescapable...

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(Originally found via Slashdot.)

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Direct link to the video page:

http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-polishing-a-turd.html

[diamond6]

lol

[ASOC]

dorodungo is actually soil (or dirt) polishing.

The mythbusters used it for the polich the XXXC episode.

For more (and fotos)

http://www.dorodango.com/about.html

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> dorodungo is actually soil (or dirt) polishing.

You are quite correct, and I apologize for my mis-statement.