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Just had this emailed to me, it sounds plausible, is it true?
Manure: 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 Transit) which has come down through the centuries and is in
use to this very day.
What results do you get when you go to Snopes.com and search for "ship high in transit" ?
This sorry piece of codswallop about exploding ships appears to have begun its Internet life in February 2002... http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/shit.asp
tom - why do you get the luxury of custom topic urls when we dont even get a nice search facility eh? 😉
http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/shit
could understand novel theory
Pan-Am Coffee. Or should that be TWA Tea?
because i first titled it the aforementioned but then thought I'd get moderated myself, and if I get moderated it's bad.
you inspired me to blog http://www.singletrackworld.com/blogs/2010/03/techy-blog-part-1/
rule of thumb - most words dont come from acronyms. examples of words people falsly believe originate from acronyms: posh - port out starboard home, ned - non-educated delinquent.
its all bullpoop. the technical term for these kind of explanations is backronym and its all wishful thinking.
out of interest then, if we create a new thread with say, the title ****, then edit our OP title to File Under Common Knowledge, the url will retain the original thread title? 😈
can you make (website guy, not the user) the google quick sarch box auomatically return results by time and date rather than relevance?