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Oh, neat, I was looking for a way to get amphetamines without a prescription. JFK took a buttload* of amphetamines, but you wouldn't know it from his speech pa

Oh, neat, I was looking for a way to get amphetamines without a prescription. JFK took a buttload* of amphetamines, but you wouldn't know it from his speech patterns. * pretty sure that is the technical term.

msandford 12y ago
It is, and spelled correctly since he was in the US at the time. Had he been anywhere else, it would have been a "butteload" or a "buttloade" (I can't remember which, this is a friend's joke).
- andyl 12y ago
  Beer used to be sold in butts. The butt of beer was equal to half a tun, two hogsheads, three barrels or 108 imperial gallons (491.0 l). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_brewery_cask_units http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_brewery_cask_units
  - msandford 12y ago
    You learn something new every day! Thanks for that.
  - schoen 12y ago
    Hey, all of those are in GNU units except the tun and the butt! (But they have winetun and winebutt, which are clearly different from the beer units.)
    - sp332 12y ago
      What about a methbutt?
  - simplexion 12y ago
    "The important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time."
  - Theodores 12y ago
    ...and a 'water butt' is probably how rural folk in England best know that term. A 'water butt' filled up with rainwater from the gutters was what you used to water the garden with, drown excess kittens in and so on. Oddly, growing up with 'everyone' having a 'water butt', a 'butt' was a big container full of water, only with the internet and the consequent invasion of Americanisms have I learned a 'butt' is a 'bottom'.
  - logfromblammo 12y ago
    The drinking water on board sailing ships was stored in a butt, which had been scuttled (holed) to withdraw the water. Sailors would gather around the scuttled butt to take their water ration, and exchange rumors and gossip, which was shortened to "scuttlebutt". This has a direct analog in the office water cooler. It is therefore also entirely appropriate to measure information of dubious provenance in terms of buttloads. That is easily extended to time spent on the Internet, for obvious reasons. Assloads, on the other hand, refer to the use of donkeys as a pack animal, and would be more appropriate for non-pourable items, which could be balanced across the backside of the animal, or strapped on (to a pack saddle). I am, sadly, unaware of the history behind the fuckton, or its metric equivalent.
foobar2020 12y ago
So did Hitler, along with frequent opioid shots, which had only exacerbated his bipolar disorder.
cbd1984 12y ago
> but you wouldn't know it from his speech patterns. He was truly a man of his err-ahh, err-ahh.
- proksoup 12y ago
  Exactly. Never talked fast either.
lowmagnet 12y ago
JFK also had addison's and hypothyroidism, and thus naturally low energy.

msandford 12y ago

It is, and spelled correctly since he was in the US at the time. Had he been anywhere else, it would have been a "butteload" or a "buttloade" (I can't remember which, this is a friend's joke).

andyl 12y ago
Beer used to be sold in butts. The butt of beer was equal to half a tun, two hogsheads, three barrels or 108 imperial gallons (491.0 l). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_brewery_cask_units http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_brewery_cask_units
- msandford 12y ago
  You learn something new every day! Thanks for that.
- schoen 12y ago
  Hey, all of those are in GNU units except the tun and the butt! (But they have winetun and winebutt, which are clearly different from the beer units.)
  - sp332 12y ago
    What about a methbutt?
- simplexion 12y ago
  "The important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time."
- Theodores 12y ago
  ...and a 'water butt' is probably how rural folk in England best know that term. A 'water butt' filled up with rainwater from the gutters was what you used to water the garden with, drown excess kittens in and so on. Oddly, growing up with 'everyone' having a 'water butt', a 'butt' was a big container full of water, only with the internet and the consequent invasion of Americanisms have I learned a 'butt' is a 'bottom'.
- logfromblammo 12y ago
  The drinking water on board sailing ships was stored in a butt, which had been scuttled (holed) to withdraw the water. Sailors would gather around the scuttled butt to take their water ration, and exchange rumors and gossip, which was shortened to "scuttlebutt". This has a direct analog in the office water cooler. It is therefore also entirely appropriate to measure information of dubious provenance in terms of buttloads. That is easily extended to time spent on the Internet, for obvious reasons. Assloads, on the other hand, refer to the use of donkeys as a pack animal, and would be more appropriate for non-pourable items, which could be balanced across the backside of the animal, or strapped on (to a pack saddle). I am, sadly, unaware of the history behind the fuckton, or its metric equivalent.

foobar2020 12y ago

So did Hitler, along with frequent opioid shots, which had only exacerbated his bipolar disorder.

cbd1984 12y ago

> but you wouldn't know it from his speech patterns. He was truly a man of his err-ahh, err-ahh.

proksoup 12y ago
Exactly. Never talked fast either.

lowmagnet 12y ago

JFK also had addison's and hypothyroidism, and thus naturally low energy.