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damiengh
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Re:Joke of the Day!
Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 09:36 AM CDT

Quote by: RochaMalhada
Manure...

An interesting fact

Manure: 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 Transit) 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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SmokeyVW
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Re:Joke of the Day!
Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 04:13 PM CDT

let's not get started with the Farmer's Union of Central Kansas

years ago, i was talking with some friends and spontaneously said to a buddy, "There will never be a Framingham Area Rapid Transit System." he disagreed and started to argue that the population was large enough to support it. after letting him rant a bit, i followed up by saying, "Well, if there ever is one, they won't call it that! They'll need a better name."
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Re:Joke of the Day!
Thursday, August 30 2012 @ 10:25 AM CDT


Music is the master link in the chain of the tribes of mankind! -SloParts
and so it goes...


 
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SmokeyVW
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Re:Joke of the Day!
Sunday, September 02 2012 @ 09:17 AM CDT

One day the zoo-keeper noticed that the orangutan was reading two books: the Bible and Darwin's Origin of Species. Surprised, he asked the ape, "Why are you reading both those books?" "Well," said the orangutan, "I just wanted to know if I was my brother's keeper or my keeper's brother."

from AWADmail Issue 531
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Re:Joke of the Day!
Wednesday, September 12 2012 @ 01:03 PM CDT


Need drums? Look me up...
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Re:Joke of the Day!
Wednesday, September 12 2012 @ 04:15 PM CDT

A man was involved in an accident and the whole left side of his body was burnt beyond recognition. He's all right now.

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