Tangents

So, in World of Warcraft this year, for the game's version of Oktoberfest, you can get a keg pony.  He is, as you can see, adorable.  (And yes, I made our tabards pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  The rest of the year, they're red.)

So, the conversation moved from keg ponies to keg shires, because, dude, the shire horse can pull five tons.  I've known that for years; it's one of the comments on them in the Illustrated Guide to Horses of the World.

Someone mentioned that beer gives them a headache, and they'd prefer rum.  So then I wondered, just how much is five tons of rum?

Well, this is the U.S., so our tons are two thousand pounds.  Water is about eight and a third pounds per gallon; that's probably close enough for rum.  Ten thousand pounds (five tons) in gallons of rum is probably about twelve hundred gallons.  We go next to Google, which is our awesome conversion tool of the day; it tells us that twelve hundred gallons in cubic feet is about one hundred sixty.

So what's a hundred sixty cubic feet?  Ten by four by four, or eight by four and a half by four and a half.

Or, about the volume of the staff bathroom at work.  Hm...