How this word came to be!

Deadly Sushi

Formerly The Giant Mojito
Manure... An interesting fact




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=2
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.
 

The Tourist

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I'm not sure I believe it. I've heard similar stories about other words.

For example, there's an urban legend that adulterous women were tried in English courts and made to sit in a special chair marked, "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge."

Same deal as your story.

The best one is about English longbow archers. The story goes that a French aggressor announced that if the archers attacked him, he would cut off the fingers of their right hand, ending their careers with a bow.

Since longbows were made from a yew tree, the victorious archers rode past the Frenchman and held up their right hands, bragging they could still pluck a bow.

As they rode by with their fingers up, they yelled, "Pluck yew."
 

joec

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Funny I heard the first marriage license issued where by Kings titled "Fornication Under Consent of King". But I like yours better Chico.
 
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PapaJoe8

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The history of food... and life on earth are two of my interests. This was for sure a big ball of molten rock at one point.

Dying plants and... hmm and later things that ate tha plants... and pooped at some point later, has led to what we have today.

Whats that song??? Oh, "If you want flowers you've got to have rain",,, Sinatra sang it I think?

Listen to enough songs and you WILL know all... :~)
Joe
 

Keltin

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And if you put your hand in the middle of some manure….”IC”!!!

But if you put IC in the middle of manure you get

Manicure.

Yeah!

Uh……never mind. :lol:
 
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