🚀 go-pugleaf

Sorry for all the > - I can't find where I've put that cleaner-upper
program. I can't verify the accuracy of the information - but it came to me
in an email, so it "must" be true....

> Ever Wonder where that gloriously descriptive word came from???
>
> "Store High In Transit"
>
> In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything had to be transported by ship.
>
> It was also before commercial fertiliser'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 "Store High In Transit". Which meant the sailors were 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," 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 but i found out and now you do too.