The Shit Hit The Fan.👅 Where did it come from?

When I think about “shit literally hitting a fan,” GROSS! Who said this first?

I wanted to why we say it. Where did this idiom come from? Who said it first, and why? — Today we will know!

A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English lists the phrase as Canadian, circa 1930.

The true origins of the expression “shit hit the fan” are largely undetermined, though some sources suggest that Canada is to blame — it might have come from the particularly picturesque Canadian military language of the early twentieth century. Another suggestion is that the idiom is descended from an old joke.

Here’s the old joke, and by the way,this gives me a great visiual picture and a keen sence the smell in some crazy bar situation inthe 1930's. Totally sound like a classic ass drunk tale to me. Funny stuff, so here is the story:

Back in the west, when bars first had overhead fans installed, to cool the customers, a man rushed in through the swinging doors up to the bar and said he was desperate for a dump and where was the ‘convenience’. ‘It’s upstairs, second door on the right’…