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Old 11-05-2007, 05:39 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Manure...A True Story

In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything had to be transported by ship and it was also before commercial fertilizer's invention, so large shipments of manure were common.


It was shipped dry, because in dry form it weighed a lot less than when wet, but once water (at sea) hit it, it not only became heavier, but the process of fermentation began again, of which a by product is methane gas. As the stuff was stored below decks in bundles you can see what could (and did) happen.

Methane began to build up below decks and the first time someone came below at night with a lantern, BOOOOM!

Several ships were destroyed in this manner before it was determined just what was happening

After that, the bundles of manure were always stamped with the term "Ship High In Transit" on them, which meant for the sailors to stow it high enough off the lower decks so that any water that came into the hold would not touch this volatile cargo and start the production of methane.

Thus evolved the term "S.H.I.T " , (Ship High In Transport) which has come down through the centuries and is in use to this very day.

You probably did not know the true history of this word.

Neither did I.

I had always thought it was a golf term.
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Old 11-05-2007, 07:09 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Interesting, but I don't get the golf punchline.
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Old 11-05-2007, 11:03 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Delete this post, please.
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Old 11-05-2007, 04:36 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Interesting, but I don't get the golf punchline.
you have obviously never played golf...
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- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
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- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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Old 11-05-2007, 04:40 PM   #5 (permalink)
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The reason they call it "Golf" is because "Fuck" was taken...
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Old 11-05-2007, 07:57 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Old 11-05-2007, 09:42 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Delete this post, please.
huh?....

anyway.. I think I read this before.. I do find it pretty amusing
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Old 11-05-2007, 10:38 PM   #8 (permalink)
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you have obviously never played golf...
Nope, I haven't. So... it's a golf thing?
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Old 11-06-2007, 07:45 AM   #9 (permalink)
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huh?....

anyway.. I think I read this before.. I do find it pretty amusing
I had a bunch of browser errors that day and two of my posts ended up in wrong parts of this forum. I meant delete my post. Sorry for the confusion.
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Old 11-07-2007, 10:20 PM   #10 (permalink)
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It's a amazingly a true story. or it's just a load of shit!
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Old 11-08-2007, 07:29 PM   #11 (permalink)
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i thought it came from the anglo-saxon word skyte
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