Sunday, July 13, 2025

Story Post: Dirt Ain’t Raised Kicking Eagle Nests or Earthworm Dung

An old Tennessee proverb about ensuring that your effort is put to actions that meet your objectives

Comments

Josh: he/they

13-07-2025 19:13:44 UTC

Score 5. Gotta give it up, entirely plausible and also internally logically consistent.

Darknight: he/him

13-07-2025 19:44:24 UTC

Score 4. It’s sound but doesn’t roll off the tongue well if you haven’t used it before

Kevan: he/him

13-07-2025 20:09:39 UTC

Score 2. Evocative, but most of the planet’s soil has literally been excreted by earthworms.

JonathanDark: Puzzler he/him

13-07-2025 20:32:57 UTC

Having grown up in the southern United States, I can say that this rings like a true Southernism. Could easily be in the lyrics to a Johnny Cash song. Score 5.

Bucky:

13-07-2025 23:50:28 UTC

Score 3 because it has the tone down, but it’s illogical. On one hand, kicking earthworm dung is likely to raise dirt in the process. On the other, kicking eagle nests is extraordinarily difficult in the United States because the relevant eagle species don’t nest anywhere near ground level.

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