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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Rantburg Country Club: POTUS hits 200th game milestone. |
| 2014-10-14 |
| Nice to see he's got his priorities well aligned. Stay calm, work on your putter grip. Wonder if he has the yips out of his game... |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 200th round? Not even close to Woodrow Wilson or Dwight D. Eisenhower. He still has two years to go. He might surpass Ike but probably not Wilson. Wilson and Obama were both progressives in their views. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-10-14 22:47 |
| #8 Defended from Old German for diarrhea, thus keeping The Democratic Underground link. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-10-14 20:36 |
| #7 I'd assumed it came from the German word schiesse. Since the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes all spoke German I still think that is likely the origin. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-10-14 15:03 |
| #6 Gee, I always thought they called it "Golf" cause "Shit" was already taken. Guess not. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-10-14 07:58 |
| #5 So shite comes into this how? About the golf, as long as the Big O is entertained with life, us peons should be happy. Right? |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-10-14 07:56 |
| #4 Urban legend, according to the nice people at the urban legends page at about.com. Merely olde English, Shipman, not Saxon. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-10-14 07:07 |
| #3 I thought it was Saxon in origin, looks like I was wrong. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-10-14 06:19 |
| #2 Ship High In Transit Thought it was instructions in the president's cabin on Airforce One. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2014-10-14 02:23 |
| #1 A story told to Golfers who hit the 200th Game Milestone at the Rantburg Country Club: In the 16th century, most everything was transported by ship and it was also before the invention of commercial fertilizer, so largeshipments of manure were common. It was shipped dry, because it weighedless but once water hit it, fermentation began which produced methane gasas a by-product. The manure was stored in bundles below deck and once wet with sea water, methane began to build up. 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 had happened. Afterwards, the bundles of manure were stamped with the term "Ship High In Transit" which directed the crew to stow it in the upper decks so that any water that came into the hold would not reach this volatile cargo and produce the explosive gas. Thus evolved the term "S.H.I.T " (Ship High In Transit) which has come down through the centuries and is still in use today. You probably did not know the true history of this word. Neither did I. I always thought it was a golf term |
| Posted by: Boss Elmatch2360 2014-10-14 00:27 |