Memphipedia: Hobophobe

Hobophobe - a person suffering from hobophobia. A hobophobe has an irrational fear of hobos, such that when confronted by a hobo or fagabond, this person will experience rapid heartrate, sweating palms, and a feeling of panic causing them to need to flee the situation. Hobophobes are most often found living in wealthy, gated communities where confrontation with hobos is rare. Treatment for hobophobia is usually of the 'face your fears' theory and involves sending the sufferer to WalMart where almost everyone very closely resembles, or in many cases is, a hobo.


Fuck all you haters!

Memphipedia: Fagabond

Fagabond - a person of the homosexual persuasion who wanders from place to place with no particular home. They might be found sleeping in a public park, earning money by performing felatio on various Congressmen or random men, or redecorating homes for wealthy people in exchange for cash and a place to spend the night. A fagabond is characterized by no fixed income and almost continuous traveling, usually to locations that a heterosexual person would have little interest in visiting such as Connecticut, Dollywood or the CNN studio tour in Atlanta.


Connecticut is lovely this time of year

Memphipedia: SHIT

An interesting fact. Learn something new every day……………..

Manure: 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 became heavier, but the process of fermentation began again, of which a byproduct is methane gas. As the stuff was stored below decks in bundles you can see what could (and did) happen.

Methane began to build up below decks and 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 was happening.

After that, the bundles of manure were always stamped with the term 'Ship High In Transit' on them, which meant for the sailors to stow it high enough off the lower decks so that any water that came into the hold would not touch this volatile cargo and start the production of methane.

Thus evolved the term ' S.H.I.T ' , (Ship High In Transport) which has come down through the centuries and is in use to this very day.

You probably did not know the true history of this word. Neither did I.

I had always thought it was a golf term.

...and lets not forget about For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge! But that's a different lesson.