EmptyPockets
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> >
> >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 byproduct 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!
> >
> >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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> >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 byproduct 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!
> >
> >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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