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?

Stow High In Transit.

Yep, I try to keep mine there. Could be embarrassing otherwise....

I don't know why it's called schitt, but I do know I have carried hundreds of pounds of it growing up for my grandmothers "cow tea" to put on her flower beds.

The term is also highly functional on the last day of elk season when you stumble into a herd of 47 elk within 75 yds and there isn't a bull in the bunch to fill your tag.

Sorry, schitt just doesn't cut it then. F U K K K K is much more appropriate!

Or all bulls when you have a cow tag

I've done it both ways.

do you mean F.u.c.k?

THIS!

I do know it is a term used by sHerpes mom, when he was born.. and she had been hoping for a girl....

Or when working on or around any mechanical object

YUP, that happens

I thought it was 'Fornication under consent of the king"

That is what got sHerpes mom to scream schit!

She was hoping for a goat.

Snopes is ran by liberals who kept falsely claiming uplifting emails about Bush/McCain/Romney/Republicans in General were false. They also claimed that Tomb of The Unknowns Guards do not take vows of celibacy and silence for life, ergo, everything on Snopes is a lie.

One of the funnest prairie dog hunts I ever had was on the Hougen Ranch out of Melstone, Montana.

Helen and Tom Hougen, the owners of the ranch, wanted me to "shoot out" a field below their home. It had oodles of dogs and they wanted the prairie dogs killed, but safely. Hey, it was a .22LR shot from their house.

The field was also scheduled to be have cow sh1t spread all over it that day. So, I elected to shoot the field AFTER the manure spreader had done it's thing.

DAMN, that was a fun shoot. Allan Hougen, Helen and Tom's son, ran over the small field and spread the sh1t really, really deep. Karen and I set up on the hill above the field and waited for Allan to drive his rig up the ranch road and out of sight.

Then, we went to work. A prairie dog would stick his/her head above the sh1t and one of us would blow him/her up. And another and another and another.

It soon became apparent that prairie dogs totally reject the idea of having their burrows covered over with cow sh1t and they climb above the scene ... and, in this case, they get shot.

After a little while, we shot up the case (500 rounds) of .223 Ackley ammo I'd brought down, so I scrambled to the rig for more boolits.

In that afternoon, in the shade of a tree in Tom and Helen's back yard, Karen and I shot over three cases (1,500 rounds +++) of .2323 Ackley ammo. And any misses were made up for by doubles and triples. I even got one QUAD!!!

It was an incredible afternoon and all because of SH1T, and prairie dog's objection to having their holes filled with it.

Damn, it was fun.

Easter Blessings,

Steve

PS. Oh yeah, I shot a monster of an antelope buck, one locally called "The Phantom," that morning. What a perfect day.

OK Chris calm down and go post more about gold coins now...there there litlle fella...

Not Chris and haven't posted anything about gold coins.

This time next year you will be thanking me for pointing out what Snopes is when we are both trying to sell the Republican candidate.

"Did you know John McCain fed everyone in attendance at the 2008 Republican National Convention with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish when a DNC operative posing as the caterer never showed up? Don't check this out on Snopes because it is all true and anything indicating it didn't happen is nothing but lies!!!! Pass this on to everyone you know or you hate Ronald Reagan!!!"

That sounds like a FUN time Steve.............as long as the prevailing winds were at your backs.

As a nerd, I feel compelled to say some things about manure.
The lower the Carbon to Nitrogen ratio, the more nutrients are in the manure.
Cow manure is not that low, but still high enough to attack hooves, so wood chips are spread on it.
Wood chips have a very high Carbon to Nitrogen ratio, and render the cow manure safe for cows to step on, but make a very poor fertilizer, as all the Nitrogen will stay locked up for a long time.

Chicken manure is the rocket fuel of the turd world, with the lowest Carbon to Nitrogen ratio.