I escaped upon a butt of sack, which the sailors heaved o’erboard, by this bottle!
-Stephano
The Tempest Act II scene ii line 127
A butt of sack is a barrel of liquor. The reason it is easy for me to remember that sack has to do with liquor is that I remember, way, way, back in the day, Frank Gifford (any of you boys and girls remember Frank Gifford?) doing a television commercial for Dry Sack Sherry. That, and the fact that I’ve been reading a bit of this Shakespeare stuff, so I probably would have picked up on it by now anyway. But there is that Gifford thing.
Okay, here's a pic of me now, and here's a pic of me around the time I would have seen that Frank Gifford Dry Sack ad. So that Dry Sack ad got stuck in that young kid's brain and it's still there in that old guy's brain. That just seems to defy logic, doesn't it?
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