Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast

“ONE IS NEVER TOO OLD TO LEARN SOMETHING NEW!”
Manure.. An interesting fact.

Manure : In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything for export had to be transported by ship. 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. 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 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) ,…. “So it’s really not a swear word” which has come down through the centuries and is in use to this very day.

And you probably did not know the true history of this word and neither did I....

I had always thought it was a golfing term!....

Doddy Loc: Barnard Castle-England

I thought it was a "bowel movement" term...lol.

Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast

That too but with it being used so frequently, I guess its meant a lot of things to a lot of people....

Sunnely Loc: Wisconsin

Trivia of the day.

One commonly bleeped 4-letter word's mystery deciphered.

Thanks.

Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast

....ain't history wonderful...

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

Fun story, but not "true" - it has been repeatedly debunked as urban myth. The story only showed up on the internet in 1999. Just Google "shit word origin". This is the true origin of the word:

The word shit entered the modern English language via having been derived from the Old English nouns scite and the Middle Low German schite, both meaning “dung,” and the Old English noun scitte, meaning “diarrhea.” Our most treasured cuss word has been with us a long time, showing up in written works both as a noun and as a verb as far back as the 14th century.

Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast

Of course its not true....its a just a joke and play on words....

Dannj

[quote=Blaster34]Of course its not true....its a just a joke and play on words.... [/quote

I’m goin’ with the OP version even if it is bull....(pun intended). 😊

Sirsnapalot Loc: Hammond, Louisiana

Sounds like a bunch of S.H.I.T.

daldds Loc: NYC

The number of times that this report has appeared as an explanation of the derivation is amazing.
Shit is from the German word Scheisse (pronounced sheiseh) and in older English literature is seen as shite. Remember that English has German as a root language.
Sorry, amigos.

dpfoto Loc: Cape Coral, FL

The bowel movement term is "Dropping Politicians off at the waterslide"

Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast

daldds Loc: NYC

Also, I hope you hogs who read our explanation the German derivation of the word won’t think of us as party poopers.

Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast

Not at all, someone has to remain sane...

foxfirerodandgun Loc: Stony Creek, VA

A few years before my retirement, the company that I had worked for implemented a new procedure for newly hired employees. And the acronym for this new program was S.H.I.T. It stood for "Super High Intensity Training. From that point going forward each newly hired employee received their daily ration of S.H.I.T each working day for their entire six month training period. ;~)