Doepfer

On Feb 4, 2008, at 12:57 AM, hardware@doepfer.de wrote:
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This stands for Bull Shit - american slang for many things but in  
this case it basically means "obnoxious lies." From the wikipedia:

Most commonly, it describes incorrect, misleading, false language and  
statements. Literally, it describes the faeces of a bull. As with  
many expletives, it can be used as an interjection (or in many other  
parts of speech) and can carry a wide variety of meanings.

Bullshitting is usually used to describe statements that are false,  
or made-up. Usually people describe other people's action of making a  
lot of statements as bullshitting in arguments, when one is making up  
rules or making examples that are not anything to do with what they  
are discussing or when one is making statements by using examples  
that need different rules to be applied, so this person is bullshitting

As it contains the word "shit", the term is usually considered foul  
language, hence the use of the euphemistic abbreviations "bull" and  
"BS". Nonetheless, the term is prevalent in American English and, as  
with many words, the term is used in a variety of countries, some  
dating back to approximately the same era World War I. In British  
English, bollocks is a comparable expletive, although bullshit is now  
a commonly used expletive in British English also.



As you can see - American English is very colorful.

-James