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Manure... An interesting fact Manure : In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything for export had to be transported by ship. It was also before the invention of commercial fertilizers, so large shipments of manure were quite common.

It was shipped dry, because in dry form it weighed a lot less than when wet, but once water (at sea) hit it, not only did it become 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 instruction

' Stow 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 ' , (Stow High In Transit) 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!

Cute.

But not exactly true:

he word s.h.i.t entered the modern English language via having been derived from the Old English nouns scite and
the Middle Low German schite, both meaning "dung," and the Old English noun scitte, meaning "diarrhea." Our most treasured cuss word has been with us a long time, showing up in written works both as a noun and as a verb as far back as the 14th century.

http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/[bleep].asp

Interesting. And it's still a golf term.

It's also a shooting term that applies to 5th round flyers.

Maybe we can get a pizzin match going on the origins of schit....

looks like we're there!

crap.

you people don't know schit

Uh the post I made above was a joke.....

Damn....there goes the pizzin match.......



How about the acronym created by 'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge'?

Yea, but with some of the tinfoil crowd here just might have believed you!!

Now they might buy it..................

Well I'm pizzed anyway cause some brainiacs say it's a major player in climate change,guess it was dino S.H.I.T all along and not an asteroid..who woulda thunk!

Fertilizer in a ships hold can get a little sideways if ya ain't careful......

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster

You're funny today....where is the REAL Ingwe?!

Everyone knows you can't believe snopes....I'm good with EH's original story!

If snopes mentioned something about REPUBLICAN ships, then you couldn't believe them...

Here he is!



GFY

Oh,there you are.

Schitty joke?