On 31 Oct 2015, at 06:12, P.J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. >
The French word 'bouse', pronounced booze, nicely unifies these definitions. It means 'excrément de bovin'. That is, bullshit. B > >> 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. >> >> >>> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
