Posted on 04/19/2009 11:21:53 PM PDT by dayglored
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...
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-polishing-a-turd.html
lol
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
You are quite correct, and I apologize for my mis-statement.
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