Pre-metric: I remember 'fifths'.

[trof]

Back when whiskey came in 1/5th of a gallon bottles.
"I'll take a fifth of Johnny Walker and a fifth of Bacardi".
Now it's 750 mililiters.

And if you were flush enough you bought the 1/2 gallon bottle.
Now it's 1.75 liters.

Somehow a fifth of booze just sounded a lot more cool.
Kind of rat-packish, Sinatra cool.
Oh well.
Progress.
???
;-)

[montanto]

1. Yessss!!!!11!! nt

[skygazer]

2. Used to buy a fifth of Jack Daniels every Friday night

It was a ritual.

Then there were "lids." :smoke:

[ohiosmith]

3. and acid came in mics

[trof]

5. and roaches

Do they still call them that?
I was a little too old for the drug culture.

[ohiosmith]

8. I still call em roaches, doobies, joints.

[skygazer]

10. Roaches are still around

But you don't hear about lids or nickel and dime bags anymore. I'm with you, though - I miss the sound of "fifth." ~sigh~

[itsmesgd]

12. I made a "lid" reference to a 20 something and he was lost.

[MsKandice01]

21. I'm only 31 and I call them fifths

That's all I've ever heard them referred to as.

[DainBramaged]

4. I have a half-gallon of Chivas bottled in 1964

Unopened. I think I want it opened when I'm gone.

[trof]

7. Do like I do. Drink it and refill it with cheap Scotch.

;-)

[DainBramaged]

34. It's for my farewell party, someday it will be enjoyed

[trof]

13. This is my present brand:

This is an original 1966 print ad for 100 Pipers Scotch Whisky, with photos of Rudolph Valentino, Francis X. Bushman, Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, John Gilbert and John Barrymore.

[petronius]

6. "The metric system is the tool of the devil!

My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!”

http://www.freewebs.com.nyud.net:8090/bart_simps0n/skyone_simps_galllge_6.gif

[trof]

14. 40 rtth? Is it a Hummer?

Very funny, and clever.
;-)

[Art_from_Ark]

38. Wow! You get about 10 feet to the gallon!

Dick Cheney thanks you! :rofl:

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

9. Hey, you can still get an 1/8 or a quarter of herb.

[Gormy Cuss]

11. And then there were G.I.Qs.... n/t

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

16. There still are ...

... I just can't drink that much anymore.

:)


and 750ml bottles? I still call them "fifths" and the clerk knows what to get off the shelf.

[trof]

18. Well, you're not required to drink it ALL at one sitting.

I just drink a little each night until it's all gone.
;-)

OK...I drink quite a bit each night until it's all gone.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

25. WHAT??? You can recap and drink later?

I didn't know that. I figure if you open a beer, whatever the size, you drink it til it's gone. So you can use the empty as an ashtray.


Even those big German bottles with the "flip" ceramic top. Saving opened beer for later, what a concept.

:rofl:

[trof]

30. Sorry, I thought we were talking whiskey. Now I get it.

No, I believe a bottle of beer, no matter what size, should be drunk at one sitting.

[Gormy Cuss]

19. But no one seems to call them that these days.

It's one of those adult code words that my father and his pals used when I was a kid and I spent weeks trying to find someone who could explain to me why it was called that rather than just pointing to a big bottle of beer as an example. I thought it had something to do with the military.
:-)

[trof]

17. OK, I had to look that up. GIQ:

G.I.Q

Otherwise known as a 40oz for the newer generation, in the older generation of our parents, it is short-hand for a Giant Imperial Quart; a quart being 32oz, an imperial quart being 38.4 oz, and a giant imperial quart being 40oz.

Father: "Back in my day alls we did to relax was drink a couple of G.I.Q.'s"
Son: "Drink a couple of what?"
Father: "It's what you call a 40oz, it means Giant Imperial Quart"
Son: "Oh why didn't you say so? Me and my friends drink those all the time"
Father: "You WHAT?!?"

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

26. We called it "Great Imperial Quart"

But it's also Giant Imperial Quart or Grand Imperial Quart.

Whatever it is, it's a big bottle of beer.

[Little Wing]

15. I usually don't remember the fifths

:hangover:

[trackfan]

20. I still usually refer to it as a "fifth" - and I always call the pocket-flask

size a "half-pint"

[ohiosmith]

23. When I lived in Canada half-pints were called mickeys

[trof]

22. I guess I'll spend the rest of my days thinking in quarts and gallons.

And feet.
I can kind of visualize/estimate a meter because it's about a yard.
I know how big a quart or half gallon of milk looks.
I have no idea why whiskey was measured in parts of a gallon.
Especially 1/5th.
I guess some whiskey did come in quarts, if I remember correctly.
Maybe bourbon.

[trof]

24. Did you know 'bourbon' HAS to be made in Bourbon County, KY?

By congressional statute.

That's why Jack Daniels isn't 'bourbon'.
It's the same damn thing, but they have to call it 'Tenneesee Sippin' Whiskey' or some such.

Like 'champagne' has to come from the champagne region of France.
All the rest is just 'sparkling wine'.

[trof]

27. More on Jack Daniels. You can't buy it where they make it.

We took the distillery tour last year.
Lynchburg, TN is in a 'dry' county.
No liquor sales of any kind.
So where they make Jack Daniels you can't stop in the gift shop on the way out and pick up a fifth.
;-)

And NO free samples at the end of the tour.
:-(

[ohiosmith]

29. Are you a Squire?

The letters are a hoot.

[trof]

31. Squire? Letters? I'm missing something here.

???

[struggle4progress]

28. "You can ask. But I'm gonna have to take the fifth"

[trof]

32. Similar comment on another thread inspired this one.

[struggle4progress]

33. Well, it's a really really old joke

[Scarlett17]

35. I will always buy my Jack in fifths. . .

the clerk knows what I mean.

[kedrys]

36. There's a simple reason why the US will never completely convert to metric

"third down and 1.83 meters to go" just...doesn't sound right. :P

[Oeditpus Rex]

37. Then there's the classic Cheech and Chong question

"How many joints are in a lid?"

:hippie:

[Crabby Appleton]

39. A rose by any other name...