Comments on: SHIP HIGH IN TRANSPORT

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:48:03 +0000

There are so many stories on this. As a graduate of Stevens Tech in Hoboken NJ we also were told that It used to be called Stevens Hoboken Institute of Technology S.H.I.T. but they dropped the Hoboken and we were know as SIT.
Who knows?

By: Niall

Niall — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 19:16:53 +0000

Shit derived from the German word schisse or Shitten. It comes from old old english which is closely related to German

By: Prakash

Prakash — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:18:59 +0000

shit happens.

By: capart

capart — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 20:14:58 +0000

Don’t know about the story…it was good reading, but I have a commemorative hat made by the Forest Service which was banned immediately after it was printed…S.H.I.T…..St.Helen’s Inspection Team…for the geologists that were monitoring the mountain after the eruption.

By: Barb

Barb — Thu, 26 May 2005 15:09:45 +0000

Oxford English Dictionary makes first refernce to the word in 1300s so it cannot be a true story.

By: Dash

Dash — Fri, 20 May 2005 14:10:01 +0000

As Ed would say, “I did not know that.” I did know, however, that the the first name of Rice University was Sam Houston Institute of Technology (SHIT), but was rejected. At least that’s the story I heard while living in Houston – probably an urban legend. Heh.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 20 May 2005 10:01:50 +0000

.. what a load of shit… is that true?..