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[rockhound]

When the colonists first settled in the 13 original colonies, there wasn't many cattle, horses or other domesticated animals to manufacture manure. Without manure they hadn't any fertilizer. Ships arriving from Africa saw a need for this and started transporting manure from Africa to the new colonies. It would have been a profitable venture except for the fact that manure stored in the hulls of these ships created too much heat causing them to catch fire and burn up at sea. To prevent this they started storing the manure on the top deck for expose to the wind. Shortly afterwards, all ships carried manure this way. To insure that manure was stored on the deck instead of the hold, captains had the these words painted on the sides of their ships, "Ship High In Transit". After some time passed, in order to save paint and time, they just abbreviated these words. S-H-I-T. So now you know where that word originated from. It was becoming used more often and finally was made a part of our vocabulary. End of story. rockhound

 

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[S IL THer]

well, crap, I thought ...........................

 

[stefen]

Funny story....however, you might also look at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/****] for a more indepth explanation which goes back even further to Roman times...
and for criminy sake, I'm not shittin ya...

 

[FCCDFEd]

Sounds like a real crappy deal to me.

 

[BrisJoe]

1 of my old mates went traveling through Malaysia a few years ago when he had long hair. As he passed through the border, his passport of stamped with a big red S-H-I-T stamp along side the customs stamp. The stamp meant "Supect Hippie In Transit" on the account of his long hair.