Two Butts to the Tun

[Subdeacon Joe]

[J-BAR #18287]

So at 8 lbs per gallon of water, a tun weighs close to a ton.

 

[Subdeacon Joe]

Yep.  That is where ton came from.

[Ramblin Gambler]

Allright.  Keep going down the line.  Where did Butt come from? 

 

[Cyrus Cassidy #45437]

2 hours ago, J-BAR #18287 said:

So at 8 lbs per gallon of water, a tun weighs close to a ton.

 

 

Which in England is a "tonne," and weighs something different than our 2000 pound ton.  I don't recall what it weighs.

[Subdeacon Joe]

20 minutes ago, Ramblin Gambler said:

Allright.  Keep going down the line.  Where did Butt come from? 

 

 

 

In this case, from the Latin, buttis, meaning cask.  For other uses it may be Dutch, Low German, or Old English, all roughly meaning "blunt" or "end."

[Cyrus Cassidy #45437]

23 minutes ago, Ramblin Gambler said:

Allright.  Keep going down the line.  Where did Butt come from? 

 

 

It's a rough approximation of how much King George III's wife weighed. 

[Subdeacon Joe]

1 minute ago, Cyrus Cassidy #45437 said:

 

Which in England is a "tonne," and weighs something different than our 2000 pound ton.  I don't recall what it weighs.

 

Tonne is what is used for "metric ton."  Roughly the same as what we now call a "long ton," about 2200 lb.  Interesting is that it used to be ton and short ton, what we now call a ton.

[Pat Riot]

Butt comes from the expression people would utter when told they had to carry that heavy cask....”But, but, but I can’t lift that!” 

[Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485]

Now I want a firkin beer.

[Alpo]

Well, now y'all should understand what is meant bye, "that is a buttload". Has absolutely nothing to do with your gluteus maximus.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

5 hours ago, Ramblin Gambler said:

Allright.  Keep going down the line.  Where did Butt come from? 

 

Albequerque, about 1964.

[Alpo]

Her name was Bertha

Bertha Butt

One of the Butt sisters

She was a big woman

Biiig woman