A Fact you probably didn't know!

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
19/04/2011 21:34

Manure : In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything had to be transported by ship and it was also before the invention of commercial fertilizers, so large shipments of manure were quite common. It was shipped dry, because in dry form it weighed a lot less than when wet, but once water (at sea) hit it, not only did it become heavier, but the process of fermentation began again, of which a by product is methane gas of course..

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
19/04/2011 21:35

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, BOOM! Several ships were destroyed in this manner before it was determined just what was happening

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
19/04/2011 21:35

After that, the bundles of manure were always stamped with the instruction ' Stow 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 ' , (Stow High In Transit) 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.

cooper


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Message Posted:
19/04/2011 21:35

Stop talking crap )

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
19/04/2011 21:36

Coop. I knew you'd say that! ) )

rowlo



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Message Posted:
19/04/2011 21:38

they are still shipping it to trnc via uk , lmao

EsentepeGal


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Message Posted:
19/04/2011 22:03

And there was I thinking that you flew in, Rowlo ;)

Lilli



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Message Posted:
19/04/2011 22:22

Bill where on earth did you find this SxxT. good though xxxxxxx

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
19/04/2011 22:38

Liz. Just trying to enlighten the members. )

Pugwash


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Message Posted:
19/04/2011 22:43

Incorrect No 1



"A popular belief is that the word shit originated as an acronym for "Ship High In Transit", referring to the apparent need to stow manure well above the water line when transporting it by ship. This has been shown to be a myth"



"The word is likely derived from Old English, having the nouns scite (dung, attested only in place names) and scitte (diarrhoea), and the verb scītan (to defecate, attested only in bescītan, to cover with excrement); eventually it morphed into Middle English schītte (excrement), schyt (diarrhoea) and shiten (to defecate), and it is virtually certain that it was used in some form by preliterate Germanic tribes at the time of the Roman Empire."



Look here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shit or many other places on the www

Lilli



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Message Posted:
19/04/2011 23:22

blinking heck Pug, thats a lot to take in. However its still the same Sxxt xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
19/04/2011 23:23

Pugwash. I like my version better. ) )

Lilli



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Message Posted:
19/04/2011 23:31

Bill i like your version but Pugs does make sense, now you got me thinking do you know where POSH came from. Not Post spice xxxxxxxxxxxx

denizen



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Message Posted:
19/04/2011 23:36

Port Outward Starboard Home Lilli

ttoli


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Message Posted:
20/04/2011 00:40

WOP = With out Passport.

WOG = Western Oriental Gentleman.

POM = Prisoner Of her Majesty.

Traveller0392


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Message Posted:
20/04/2011 01:54

Frank Muir . . . .call my bluff. . . . . I could just imagine this one on the show. . . . Do we have a 3rd version on the word? In fact who were the other 2 people on frank's team. The old chap with a stutter. . . And?

MsGarnet


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Message Posted:
20/04/2011 01:57

Wasn't it Lady someone or other - who was once caught shoplifting........and that bloke with a moustache - big chap - cripes - memory loss or what!!!!!!!!

Jeannie


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Message Posted:
20/04/2011 02:04

Was the "old chap with the stutter" Patrick Campbell?



I seem to remember Robert someone or other (Robertson?) who did Top of the Form or Ask the Family.

gazmufc78


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Message Posted:
20/04/2011 07:39

Same shit different posting!!!!

deputydawg


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Message Posted:
20/04/2011 08:55

MsGarnet. I think you may be referring to Lady Isobel Barnett who committed suicide in her bath 4 days after being fined £75 for stealing a tin of Tuna from her village shop. No s.....t, that stirs memories, as in the 1950s, being a grubby, spotty, I used to sit in front of the TV mesmerised by what I saw as very upper class tottie !

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
20/04/2011 11:02

Was it Cliff Robertson?

kaiserphil


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Message Posted:
20/04/2011 15:37

Sounds more like Professor Jimmy Edwards!