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On 3/28/2021 4:39 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 3/28/2021 2:37 PM, whirled peas wrote:
>> On Sunday, March 28, 2021 at 12:40:07 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
>>> On 2021-03-28 1:27 p.m., wrote:
>>>> On Sunday, March 28, 2021 at 10:11:04 AM UTC-5, Gary wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I also like earlier in the commercial where the girlfriend with the
>>>>> ridiculous "Mickey Mouse Ears Hairdo" walks out.
>>>>>
>>>> I might be wrong, but I took the young teenage girl to be the dancing
>>>> man and woman's daughter.
>>>>
>>> I don't think you are mistaken.

>> Just to get an idea about the size, a standard US oil barrel is 55
>> gallons. 64 gallons is not much more. I once had a friend that used a
>> retired steam kettle as a hot tub. Now that was BIG.
>>

>
> Just to be anal about it, oil barrel is 42 gallons. Bourbon barrels
> are 53 gallons. Wine barrels can vary by types, Bordeaux is 59 gallon
> but Burgundy is 60.
>
> Typical steel drum is 30 or 55 gallons.


There's also that old game, "Barrel of Monkeys." We had that. The barrel
was pretty small but so were the plastic monkeys.