Up Shit Creek?

Yes but the word SHIT actualy means ……….

Store High In Transit

It derives from when we used to import bat dropping for the use of fuel and fertiliser. Due to its nature, bat droppings, when stored it tight spaces will emit gasses that when heated have the tendacy to EXPLODE!!!
Now, the bat droppings were always stored in the holds of ships which in turn was always exposed to the heat from the engines. So to stop the dropping from exploding they where classified as S.H.I.T.

Here by ends the lesson for today!!

I thank you… 😈 😈 😈 😈 😈 😈 😈

http://www.etymonline.com/baloney.php

The word shit has a long and well-documented history, far older than any large-scale organized sea-trade in northern Europe. Anglo-Saxon leechdom books use scittan in reference to cattle having diarrhea. A Latin text from 1118 refers to “Lues animalium, quæ Anglice Scitta vocatur, Latine autem fluxus interaneorum dici potest.”

The acronym theory of the origin of shit can’t explain the related words in other languages, such as German Scheiss, Dutch schijt, Old Norse skita, and Lithuanian sikti, which come from the same prehistoric root. As far as I know, there’s no corresponding acronym to “ship high in transit” in the merchant marine history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

So, the acronym theory for the origin of “shit” breaks down because:

* the word itself is a good 1,000 years older than the common use of acronyms;
* the original form of the word (Anglo-Saxon sc-, which regularly evolved into M.E. sh-) does not correspond to the supposed acronym;
* the verb is the original form, the noun derives from it; the acronym supposes the noun came first;
* no one has produced a single instance of this supposed acronym from any old mercantile record or ship’s manifest;
* in fact, no one has ever established that there was a custom of shipping manure;
* the word has cognates in many other languages, including ones outside Germanic, for which no acronym theory of origin makes sense;

It doesn’t fit the facts, it requires a very elaborate supposition for which there is not the slightest evidence, and there is a much simpler, saner explanation for the word, the only drawback of which is that it doesn’t make a very good Internet joke.

Say it with me: “shit is not an acronym.” Repeat 100 times for every time you forwarded that e-mail. Now go forth and sin no more.

edit: Also the Posh=”Port out, starboard home” thing is a lie too, before you start 😀

Gotta laugh at this bit from the Wikipedia entry:

Used in a sentence one may say ‘I have shit on my shoe’, ‘You smell of shit!’, or ‘you’re a big steaming pile of wanker shit, you fucking nobhead’ The latter phrase is particularly popular in the South London and North Kent areas of the United Kingdom.

Can Max – or anyone else from around there – confirm?

Then again I could be wrong………!!!! 😈 😈 😈 😈 😈 😈 😈 😈 😈 😈