But ask yourself: If you somehow had a stick that was clotted with dirt on one end, and with the turds of a dozen Romans on the other, which would truly be the 'wrong' end?Ī second origin pertains to, yep, you guessed it, pubic lice (nit) and dried fecal reminisce on ass hair (grit). The origin pertains to walking sticks and accidentally grabbing the dirty, non-handled end, the 'wrong end.' OK, maybe. There is, though, another origin that's widely held to be the true one.

This is another idiom whose history is contentious, but as a comedy website you'll have to work hard to talk us out of this one, since it radically changes the classic idea of a Roman bathhouse orgy from a swinging good time to the largest collection of unintentional Dirty Sanchez's ever.

This was considered grabbing the 'wrong end of the stick.' Yeah, no shit.

If they weren't concentrating on the task, they would end up grabbing the end of the stick that was covered in the shit of 50 other guys. After a person had finished discussing the days events with their constituents, all while becoming a few pounds lighter, they would request the sponged stick to be passed along to them.

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