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Old 02-20-2003, 10:16 PM
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Default Ship High In Transit aka S.H.I.T.

The following is from an e-mail someone FW to me:

"In the 16th and 17th centuries, before commercial fertilizer was invented,
large shipments of manure were transported by ship. It was shipped in dry
bundles because in dry form it weighed a lot less than when wet.

But, once water hit it at sea, it not only became heavier, but the process of
fermentation began, a by-product of which is methane gas.

It didn't take long for methane 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 somebody figured out what
was happening. Once they determined the role that manure played in the
explosions, everybody began stamping the bundles with the term "Ship High In
Transit" so that the sailors would know 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.', 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
always thought it was a golf term!"
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Old 02-20-2003, 10:17 PM
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I've heard that one, pretty cool how words come to be.
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Old 02-20-2003, 10:18 PM
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Old 02-20-2003, 10:20 PM
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That's cool.
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Old 02-20-2003, 10:22 PM
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I don't believe it

But it works!
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Old 02-20-2003, 10:22 PM
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O.ld K.ingdom is what I heard for OK :shrug:
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Old 02-20-2003, 10:22 PM
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Coren, that one doesn't quite make any sense. ;)
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Old 02-20-2003, 10:26 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by kraziekurtis
I don't believe it

But it works!
its true, I'll look up the story later...
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Old 02-20-2003, 10:30 PM
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wow coolness
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Old 02-20-2003, 10:31 PM
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Holy S.H.I.T. thats crazy!
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