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Frank F
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 Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:45 pm Post subject: True Story of Manure - or bad clients... |
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Manure... A True Story
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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| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:59 pm Post subject: Re: True Story of Manure - or bad clients... |
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| Frank F wrote: | | I had always thought it was a golf term. |
And so it is, Frank.
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Pam
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| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Is this an urban myth (she asks wryly having just come from her writing class and still writing in the third person)? Having been on a golf course since I was a wee one, I buy golf as tghe word origin a bit more. |
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anthonyVO
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 7:52 am Post subject: |
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I always turn to Snopes on these issues.
But who REALLY knows. I just want to know why it's "bull" and not "cow" or even "pig."
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We do get the "horse" variety now and again.
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anthonyVO
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 7:59 am Post subject: |
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| true, true indeed |
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Deirdre
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:00 am Post subject: |
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I mean, like --in this thread.
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Pam
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:06 am Post subject: |
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| Hey...I resemble that remark! |
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BenWils
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:47 am Post subject: |
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| anthonyVO wrote: |
But who REALLY knows. I just want to know why it's "bull" and not "cow" or even "pig."
-Anthony |
Cause it's the biggest pile.
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BenWils
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| Deirdre wrote: | | We do get the "horse" variety now and again. |
Don't forget the "chicken" variety.
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Dave
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:57 am Post subject: |
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Hey Frank,
Don't know if the story is the true origin of the word or not...but I can usually smell the truth... so it works for me.
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Bailey
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| anthonyVO wrote: |
But who REALLY knows. I just want to know why it's "bull" and not "cow" or even "pig." |
If it's named after an animal... why is it always called manure?
... I guess I answered my own question.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I had always thought it was a golf term. |
Well, as a dirtbiker, the word is one I've often used when going over the bars at speed or finding other, newer and novel ways to crash. So far, me record is being able to say it three times before losing consciousness..... |
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