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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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From: Dale Baker4/13/2006 5:39:56 PM
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This might even be 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 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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