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Originally Posted by me283
Many years ago, dried manure was shipped as a kind of commodity. The problem was that if the sea became choppy or the waves were high, sea water would often get into the hold. This salt water, when mixed with the dried, packed manure, would cause gas creation (methane I think?), which was highly flammable. To combat this, the manure had to be stored higher up in the hold, to avoid it from mixing in the water that sloshed around on the floor. The bales were thuse marked "Ship High In Transit", which was abbreviated to...
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Even if Ship High In Transit was actually stamped on boxes (which isn't likely) it is not the origin of the word **** which for most of it's existance had an "e" on the end anyway.
Likewise, the story about Fornicate Under Concent of the King is a load of bo11icks which also has nothing to do with genitalia and actually refers to priests (see Virgin Records court case over the Sex Pistols album title "Never mind the bollicks")