I feel almost blasphemous pointing out this programming error that the History Channel is making, but I must do so.
History is vast, so how is it that instead of running a program on the black plague, Pol Pot's genocidal reign in Cambodia or the Korean War (or ANY of the relatively interesting topics that one thinks of when contemplating the shared history of humanity) that tonight they are running a program on the history of shit? Have we run out of real history?
Seriously, this is the program title and description pulled directly from their web site:
ALL ABOUT DUNG
Join host Monty Halls as he investigates the historical, medical, scientific and evolutionary importance of poop on an excremental safari guaranteed to fascinate even the most squeamish of viewers. You'll be surprised by the amazing manner in which the world puts dung to use. Discover that through a 14,000-year-old human dung deposit it has been determined that humans inhabited North America 1300 years earlier than previously thought. Climb a 100-foot mountain of bat guano in Borneo that is teeming with insect life. Travel to India and view housewarming rituals using sacred cow dung as good luck. Finally Halls drinks coffee made from poop and investigates, through their large droppings, why mammoths might have disappeared.
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I saw the title of the show when I was scrolling through the on-screen tv guide and was very surprised that it was on the history channel. I thought it would have been Discovery with Mike Rowe crawling through various piles.
PS. VERY clever title :)
hehe. That's bullshit.
I will be watching. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
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