01-22-2009, 05:34 AM
Buzz,
That’s great, here is another:
How it got its name, again from the maritime trade. Many years ago fertilizer was shipped from one port to another in a cargo hold. The manure would build up methane gasses in an inclosed area and on a few occasions a sailor had gone down below smoking a pipe. BANG, that was the end of that ship. Then on the cargo manifest it became necessary to designate where as to store the manure. Ship high in transit became the rule, trying to keep it from building gasses below deck. The manifest read S.H.I.T. or ship high in transit, the rest is history.
The Lack
That’s great, here is another:
How it got its name, again from the maritime trade. Many years ago fertilizer was shipped from one port to another in a cargo hold. The manure would build up methane gasses in an inclosed area and on a few occasions a sailor had gone down below smoking a pipe. BANG, that was the end of that ship. Then on the cargo manifest it became necessary to designate where as to store the manure. Ship high in transit became the rule, trying to keep it from building gasses below deck. The manifest read S.H.I.T. or ship high in transit, the rest is history.
The Lack