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Cute! But they were just being descriptive: From Wikipedia:
quote:A bunghole is a hole bored in a liquid-tight barrel. The hole is capped with a large cork-like object called a bung.
Bungholes were first used on wooden barrels, and were typically bored by the purchaser of the barrel using a brace and bit. Bungholes can be bored in either head (end) of a barrel or in one of the staves (side). With the bung removed, a tapered faucet can be attached to aid with dispensing. When barrels full of a commodity were shipped, the recipient would often bore new bungholes of the most suitable size and placement rather than remove the existing bung. Wooden barrels manufactured by specialty firms today usually are bored by the maker with suitable bungholes, since the hobbyists who purchase them for the making of beer, wine, and fermented foods often do not have a suitable brace and bit.
love....jill Hope you are having a fun time Dale!
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Yup...a bung is a cork driven in the fill hole of an older type keg.
When I first started delivering beer in about 1981, we had kegs called "Golden Gate" which had the bung. As you unloaded them from the truck (stacked 3 layers high) you had to be careful, because if dropped too hard the bung could blow out like a bullet. Never had one blow out, but heard stories of them killing people.
These older kegs didn't have the handles on the end, they were rounded, and slippery to hold on to after they sweated a bit.
Those were the days
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umm... Dusty if you read the name real slow, it would actually be the other way around... poker in the front....aaak.... anyway They are so sucsessful, they actually got 2 bungholes now. The tshirt is a popular one "I got it in the Bunghole" Dale didn't want one for some reason
Indeed Jill your right the bunghole is the hole in a wooden keg. The liquor store is in the area where the wharf is now and were the majority of trade with the west indies came into this country, back in the 1700's. It is actually 3 doors down fronm the original custom house where all goods were inspected, including bungholes.
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Who woulda thunk it. Mechanical bung hole agitators. Sounds like political campaign equipment to me. Maybe FEMA could use a few. Plenty of bung holes there.
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I'm starting to sweat, here. 27" ... 33" ... one, or two ...
geesh. And I actually knew what 'bung holes' were before these posts. (Must come from a Yankee Family of rum runners?)
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