> Of course not. It's a golf joke.
I've never played golf so I fail to see the connection.
-Justin
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They actually did transport a lot of fertilizer and manure this way.
When my wife was researching the packet and clipper ship era, she ran
across the accounts of a number of ships that sank just because of
this.
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson wrote:
>
> Of course not. It's
Of course not. It's a golf joke.
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Justin Scott wrote:
>
> > In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything had to be transported by ship
> > and it was also before commercial fertilizer's invention, so large
> > shipments of manure were common.
>
> It's a cute story
> In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything had to be transported by ship
> and it was also before commercial fertilizer's invention, so large
> shipments of manure were common.
It's a cute story... plausible, even. Unfortunately it's not actually
true. See: http://www.etymonline.com/baloney.p
In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything had to be transported by ship
and it was also before commercial fertilizer's invention, so large
shipments of manure were common.
It was shipped dry, because in dry form it weighed a lot less than when
wet, but once water (at sea) hit it, it not only bec
