Today, Jonathan my eldest son, was complaining about the amount of homework he's responsible for. My questioning response was, "How much, a Butt load?" he said, "At least that much."
Well, get
a load of this...
There is an exact unit of volume
called the butt.
See Webster's dictionary:
Butt: a measure of liquid capacity equal to 126 gallons or two hogs heads.
From another dictionary:
An English butt is 2 hogshead of 54 imperial gallons each or ~129.7 US gallons (i.e., a UK butt is apparently slightly bigger than a US one).
A Spanish butt is based on a wine cask and is equivalent to 140 US gallons or ~116.6 UK gallons (i.e., a Spanish butt is bigger still).
So next time someone says they have a "butt load" of stuff, just remember, that is about two 55-gallon barrels worth of stuff.
See Webster's dictionary:
Butt: a measure of liquid capacity equal to 126 gallons or two hogs heads.
From another dictionary:
An English butt is 2 hogshead of 54 imperial gallons each or ~129.7 US gallons (i.e., a UK butt is apparently slightly bigger than a US one).
A Spanish butt is based on a wine cask and is equivalent to 140 US gallons or ~116.6 UK gallons (i.e., a Spanish butt is bigger still).
So next time someone says they have a "butt load" of stuff, just remember, that is about two 55-gallon barrels worth of stuff.
To
recap...
1 butt equals:
- 2 hogsheads (this is probably the easiest to remember
for social occasions)
- 476.961 liters
- 126 gallons
- 104.917 UK gallons
- 13.5347 bushels
- 0.131592 cords
- 11.6574 firkins
- 4032 gills
- 21504 ponys
- 4032 noggins
- 1008 pints
- 96768 teaspoons
- 12.0308 ephahs
- 1.58987x10^7 drops
- 10752 jiggers
- 16128 shots
- 629.504 wine bottles
- 630 fifths
And
the punchline...
One
microbutt = 0.0968 teaspoons.
Other fun, interesting and old world measurements can be found at:
Unfortunatly he was using the incorect unit as a butt measures volume of a liquid, duh. He has since been corrected and redirected to words such as....
Tony
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