Poppycock or BS?

Word of the day on Today FM on the drive into work this am was poppycock. I was rather amused by the origins. It's a word that's mostly associated with the more genteel crowd. The gentleman of breeding. Use it in a sentence and you'll immediately think of something like...

"Why that's pure poppycock Algernon!", exclaimed Lord Helmsbury, when his brother, the fourth Earl of Leicester, informed him that his wife, Lady Helmsbury, had been sleeping with the stable lad.

It's that kind of word. No, not really. It has, believe it or not, American origins. It was borrowed by the Americans from Dutch settlers. It was originally introduced as 'pappekak' which literally means 'soft-shit' in Dutch and it then presumambly entered the english vernacular via Dutch settlers in the USA. It's as much a cuss word as 'shit' is.

But you can't say shit on the radio.....