Potty mouth Sailors anyway! ! :)

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I don't know how true this is but it made since<br />to me and was sent via E-Mail a couple years<br />ago from a friend in the Navy!<br /><br />This is a bit of history by merchant<br />Ships. Does anyone know where the word SH*T<br />comes from? <br />In the early days merchant ship's used<br />heavy items like bricks and lead for ballast that<br />was sold at the port on entry. The word did not<br />start off as a noun or verb but as a acronym<br /><br />After losing several ships to explosions it was looked into as why. Turns out all of them were transporting manure and it was down in the bilges of the ships!<br />Well in the bottoms of the sailing vessels there was always water. And water mixed with manure make<br />Methane gas! So when someone was sent below to<br />get goods, (no flash lights back then) he would<br />take a lantern. Lantern + Gas = BOOM! Once this<br />Was figured out all manure bags were stamped<br />(S)hip (H)igh (I)n (T)ransit <br />Henze the now word SH*T makes since to me<br />But like I said I don't if this is really true..<br />Link

 

[SeaMasterZ@aol.com]

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and as the splinters of wood and ashes of tattered sails came raining down, one salt said to another ...<br /><br />sh!t happens!<br /><br />lol

 

[Link]

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Potty mouth CR LOL<br />Was just going to bed but decieded to check this<br />CR... your a poet! <br />And u should be a stand up! <br /><br />Link

 

[Homerr]

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So, explain how the (s)(h)(i)(t) HIT THE FAN?<br /><br /> <br /><br />H.

 

[SeaMasterZ@aol.com]

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I tried doing stand up, but the stage caved in!<br /><br />::rimshot::<br /><br />ba dum pa!<br /><br />most of my friends, professors and random strangers tell me that, lol, apparently a lot of people like to laugh at me!<br /><br />Um, I mean, WITH me ...<br /><br />

 

[mattttt25]

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false. www.snopes.com

 

[SeaMasterZ@aol.com]

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Great site matt, I had forgoten about it<br /><br />History in the making!!!!<br /><br />Fabulous bit of historical knowledge: Ever wonder where the word **** comes from ... well here it is<br /><br />Certain types of manure used to be transported (as everything was back then) by ship ... well in dry form it weighs a lot less, but once water (at sea) hit it, it not only became heavier, but the process of fermentation began again, and one of the by products is methane gas . . . and 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 discovered what was happening. After that the bundles of manure where always stamped with the term S.H.I.T on them which meant to the sailors to "Ship High In Transit". In other words 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.<br /><br />Bet you didn't know that one.<br /><br />[Collected on the Internet, 1999]<br /><br />In the 1800's, cow pie's were collected on the prairie and boxed and loaded on steam ships to burn instead of wood. Wood was not only hard to find, but heavy to move around and store.<br /><br />When the boxes of cow pie's were in the sun for days on board the ships, they would smell bad. So when the manure was boxed up, they stamped the outside of the box, S.H.I.T. . . which means Ship High In Transit.<br /><br />When people came aboard the ship and said,"Oh what is that smell!" They were told it was ****.<br /><br />That is where the saying came from . . . It smells like ****! <br /><br />Origins: This<br />sorry piece of codswallop Fresh farm air about exploding ships appears to have begun its Internet life in February 2002. Its cousin, the "bad smelling steamship fuel" tale (second example quoted above), began its online life as an April 1999 post to the USENET discussion list rec.humor. Akin to the faux etymology of the word '****,' a specious acronym has once again been claimed as the origin of yet another term beloved of potty-mouths everywhere.<br /><br />We could launch into a long, involved discussion of ancient shipping practices, methane production and properties, and Internet leg-pulls, but we'll spare you all that, as the fanciful stories listed can easily be debunked as the product of someone's wild imaginings through linguistic means.<br /><br />The word **** entered modern English language 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.<br /><br />Scite can trace its roots back to the proto-Germanic root skit-, which brought us the German scheissen, Dutch schijten, Swedish skita, and Danish skide. Skit- comes from the Indo-European root skheid- for "split, divide, separate," thus **** is distantly related to schism and schist. (If you're wondering what a verb root for the act of separating one thing from another would have to do with excrement, it was in the sense of the body's eliminating its waste -- "separating" from it, so to speak. Sort of the opposite of today's "getting one's **** together.")

 

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Great site Matt, didn't know about it!<br /><br />The guy I got that from (friend of 35 years)<br />just got me GOOD! <br /><br />Glad I only repeated it once! Couldn't find<br />the egg on face graemlin so this will have <br />to do <br /><br />Halloween is comming so I will think of something<br />for him <br /><br />Link

 

[mattttt25]

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yes, i'm a big fan of snopes. every time i get an email forward, i check it out on snopes before i send it on claiming it's true. i'd say 90% of the crap that flies around is false. but it's still entertaining!