Funny there's also a distiller named E. C. Booz selling Whiskey in
Philadelphia about the time that Whiskey was first being bottled
(1850-1860). That seems as likely a reason for the product's slang name
as any. Now I can't find the bottle making connection online, but I
first read in in a book in a library long before "everything" worth
knowing was online.
I mean really, we don't go to the crapper to take a crap because
excrement was called crap. We go to the Crapper because it was
popularized by a London(?), well English anyway, plumber and plumbing
manufacturer named Thomas Crapper, who popularized the water closet, and
for this great service to humanity, he is forever immortalized as
excrement.
On 10/31/2015 12:35 AM, Larry Colen wrote:
P.J. Alling wrote:
On 10/30/2015 6:42 PM, Darren Addy wrote:
On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote:
As it says in the name of the album:
Plier, with booze.
"Booze" is to Lagavulin as "Broad" is to woman.
Now I've gone and broken my own rule: Never anthropomorphize Scotch.
It HATES it when you do that.
Booze was the name of a bottle maker, and Coors got into the beer
business because they made the beer bottles. I think I detect an
unfortunate trend here.
Interesting, when I looked up the definition on google I got:
Origin
Middle English bouse, from Middle Dutch būsen ‘drink to excess.’ The
spelling booze dates from the 18th century.
From the Oxford:
Origin
Middle English bouse, from Middle Dutch būsen 'drink to excess'. The
spelling booze dates from the 18th century.
MORE
People have been boozing for a long time. The spelling booze dates
from the 18th century, but as bouse the word entered English in the
13th century, probably from Dutch. We have been going to the boozer,
or pub, since the 1890s.
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