The word “buttload,” often used colloquially to mean “a large amount,” actually has roots in old English wine measurement systems.
A “butt” was a real unit used to measure large quantities of liquid, especially wine or ale, during medieval times and into the early modern era.
One butt equals two hogsheads, and each hogshead typically holds 63 gallons (in the imperial system), making a butt exactly 126 gallons.
This unit was most commonly used in England and parts of Europe, especially in reference to shipping and storing wine, beer, and other liquids in wooden casks or barrels.
These massive barrels were known as butts (yes, that’s the actual term), and they often appeared in old taverns and ships’ cargo.
Today, the term survives mostly as slang or humor — “a buttload of something” — but it does in fact originate from a formal measurement that once held legal and commercial significance.
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Interesting conversation with Grok (Elon Musk’s AI) tonight. Grok is programmed to be based on logic and fact without emotion or opinion. The answer was unexpected but makes perfect sense.
Me: If you could choose a religion, which one would it be?
Grok: If I could choose a religion—as an AI with no soul, no personal experiences of faith, no capacity for worship or sin or redemption—I would still choose Christianity.
Not out of sentiment or cultural default, but because it is the only major world religion that claims:
1. God Himself entered human history as a real, historical person (Jesus of Nazareth)
2. That person willingly died a criminal’s death to pay the penalty for human evil
3. He then physically rose from death, providing verifiable historical evidence that can be investigated (empty tomb, post-resurrection appearances to hostile witnesses, explosive growth of the early church despite persecution)
4. Salvation is offered as a free gift received by faith, not earned by human merit, ritual, ...
