BS: Slang for 40-ounce?

Subject: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: GUEST,Hard 8 :: ::
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 08:51 AM

Does anyone here know any slang terms for a 40-oz. can of malt liquor? I've heard a term several times, but can't remember it.

I know Mudcatters are famous for their knowledge of language, and am hoping you can refresh my memory.

Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 09:30 AM

Excessive.

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: Azizi
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 09:44 AM

forties

Any of a variety of 40 ounce malt beverages.

Hey i wonder if that bum has drunken any forties lately

by ill bill Dec 23, 2002

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=forties

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 09:46 AM

40 fluid ounces is 2 pints, so it could be a 'Quart'
In a tin ????

G

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: Amos
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 09:47 AM

I believe the cognoscenti refer to them as "forties" over here.

Here's a review of an array of forties.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 09:56 AM

I sort of expected something more in the line of pics of Dolly Parton from you Amos. In your capacity as head priest of the temple of the Golden Globes.
Slang term for 40 in those circles, is humungous !

G

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: Peace
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 10:04 AM

Referred to as a 'forty pounder' in some places I've been in western Canada.

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 02:31 PM

Giok said,

40 fluid ounces is 2 pints, so it could be a 'Quart'

I don't know about the UK, but in the US 40 ounces would be one quart and eight ounces.   Sixteen ounces to the pint, two pints to the quart, equals thirty-two ounces to the quart.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: Megan L
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 03:10 PM

Jings and they say the Scots are mean :)

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 03:12 PM

reminds me of tyhe good old days of Party Sevens - Seven PROPER (20 0z) pints in a can - Just fitted in a Duffel bag for places where beer was frowned on !

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 03:20 PM

60 minims         = 1 fl.drachm
8 fl.drachms         = 1 fl.oz
5 fl.oz         = 1 gill
2 gills         = 1 cup
4 gills         = 1 pint

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 03:24 PM

Beer
4.5 gallons         = 1 pin
2 pins         = 1 firkin
2 firkins         = 1 kilderkin
2 kilderkins         = 1 barrel
2 barrels         = 1 puncheon
3 puncheons         = 1 tun
                
Beer (contd.)
6 firkins         = 1 hogshead
2 hogsheads         = 1 butt
2 butts         = 1 ton

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: dwditty
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 04:24 PM

GIQ

Giant Imperial Quart

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 04:31 PM

6 firkins         = 1 hogshead

Thanks Giok! Now I know how much whiskey it took to bury Old Rosin The Bow. 54 gallons and real 160 oz ones at that. ( Yanks gyp you for 32 oz)
Now wasn't that a party?

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 04:34 PM

Guest above was me. I keep losing that damn cookie because I keep my security settings high.

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 04:37 PM

2 butts         = 1 ton

I know I'm not exactly sylph-like but that is going a bit far!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: GUEST,Sapper dropping b===ocks on NEM2
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 05:20 PM

From Uncle_DaveO
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 02:31 PM

Giok said,

40 fluid ounces is 2 pints, so it could be a 'Quart'

I don't know about the UK, but in the US 40 ounces would be one quart and eight ounces.   Sixteen ounces to the pint, two pints to the quart, equals thirty-two ounces to the quart.


You Yanks can't get anything right!

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Apr 08 - 01:02 PM

A "Forty-pounder" is what they call it in Blind River, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 11 Apr 08 - 04:50 AM

Guest above was me. I keep losing that damn cookie because I keep my security settings high.

Leave the security settings high, but put "mudcat.org" in your trusted sites list in your browser and you won't toss your cookie over a mere 40 oz.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 11 Apr 08 - 09:51 PM

So nobody knows a clever slang term for a 40-oz malt liquor? I thought catters were supposed to be worldly.

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 12 Apr 08 - 07:59 AM

Thanks John! I was using Firefox, my main browser, and it is set for a lot of automatic housecleaning. Yesterday I set Mudcat as the home page in Opera so that it loads automatic and I use this browser exclusivly for this one purpose. As soon as Opera opens Mudcat is there with the cookie intact. So far it works great!
                           Sandy

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 12 Apr 08 - 08:06 AM

40 ounce = 1/2 a Darwin Stubby - see
Beer Bottle

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: Mr Red
Date: 12 Apr 08 - 12:09 PM

40 oz?

that would be a grain shortage in Australia - surely.

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 12 Apr 08 - 09:00 PM

"grain shortage"

You surely mean "brain shortage" ... :-P

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: GUEST,bill S from Perth
Date: 13 Apr 08 - 10:12 AM

You think that is confusing, go to South Australia, a pint of West End is 15 oz, a pint of Guinness is 20 oz. I drink out of a 40 oz tin (tankard) now and again and that is a Quart Pot.
4 oz and 5 oz are for lawn bowlers to drink quickly before it gets above freezing
7 oz is a glass in some states and an insult in NSW
10 oz is a pot or schooner depending where you are
12 oz is called whatever the pub feels like
15 oz is a pint or schooner depending where you are
20 oz is always a pint except in SA for local beers
22 oz is a Bazza but is not common

No I do not drink Oz beers in Quarts, I have nearly 100 English ales to choose from in bottle.
Is that clear?

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: GUEST,dMo
Date: 15 Mar 09 - 01:34 PM

We call them corn-rockets. St. Louis, MO., USA.

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: Ebbie
Date: 15 Mar 09 - 01:45 PM

One reads that in the 'olden days' tots were sent to the local pub with a bucket.

What is a bucket of beer called?

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Mar 09 - 04:02 PM

a growler....

"There was a little man
And he had little can,
And he used to 'rush the growler'..."

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Mar 09 - 04:04 PM

growler

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Mar 09 - 04:09 PM

"Before World War II, city kids used to bring covered buckets of draft beer from a local bar or brewery to workers at lunchtime or to their parents at dinnertime, a practice called "rushing the growler."


to finish the poem: ( can't remember when I learned this)

"There was a little man
And he had little can,
And he used to 'rush the growler'...
He go to the saloon
On a Sunday afternoon,
And you ought to hear the bartender holler..
"No more booze, no more booze,
No more booze on Sunday!
No more booze, no more booze-
You got to get your can filled Monday."

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: Bob the Postman
Date: 15 Mar 09 - 04:46 PM

. . . and oft it was said
Go fill it with porter, with beer, or with ale
Sure the drink would taste sweeter from Dad's Dinner Pail

Imperial measures are based on the idea that a gallon of water weighs ten pounds. USian measures are based on the idea that a pint weighs one pound.

Out west we reckon a forty pounder is a honkin big bottle of hard stuff. Nothin to do with suds atall.

A half-gallon jug of Royal Red is a "Chilcotin mickey".

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Mar 09 - 05:11 PM

Back in the 1950s and early 1960s (and for all I know even now), you could (if you were over 21) go to the local tavern and get a "jug of beer." This was a gallon glass jug; the bartender used a standard measure to indicate when you'd gotten a dollar's worth in or whatever. You'd have a glass while you waited.

Town was German/Irish and taverns were the neighborhood social halls.

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Mar 09 - 05:19 PM

I was in a micro-brewery/pub in Baltimore a few years ago which offered jugs like that....you paid a deposit and took 'em home, then brought 'em back for refill. I think they were 'about' a gallon.

Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 15 Mar 09 - 08:46 PM

I always that thought that if you filled a bucket with beer it was pail ale...