RT123
92 posts
Mar 15, 2011
7:33 AM
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In my 20+ years of beer drinking my friends and I have a term for the few onces at the bottom of the bottle that sometimes go unfinished. We call this a Larry. Not sure wny, not sure how it started, it is just the way it has always been. And leaving a Larry is never acceptable.
I recently was at a party with some people I havent been with before and they called it a "clunker". The reason I am told is because of the "clunk" sound it makes when thrown into the recycle bin.
Either way you call it, a clunker or Larry is always frowned upon. Waste not, want not!
Does anyone else call it a Larry or Clunker or is this a regional term? What other names do you use?
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JimInMO
96 posts
Mar 15, 2011
7:36 AM
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Backwash or backwarch depending on the local.
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KingoBad
646 posts
Mar 15, 2011
8:44 AM
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"leftoverture" or "leavins" or "oh come on you wuss"
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Oisin
766 posts
Mar 15, 2011
9:23 AM
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In Ireland we used to call that the toenails when referring to a bottle of Buckfast Tonic Wine. (The toenails referring to the monks toenails who would tread the grapes).
As for bottles of beer...I don't associate with people who would leave beer in bottles so I've no idea what that bit of beer would be called in Ireland...a disgrace?
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Oisin
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Michael Rubin
108 posts
Mar 15, 2011
9:54 AM
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Larry is also a term for marijuana.
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ReedSqueal
101 posts
Mar 15, 2011
10:37 AM
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In high school we called it bongwater. (yeh, beer in high school, who would have thought it)
Now days, with all the unfiltered boutique beers on the market, we call the sludge at the bottom vitamins.
"Oh come on you wuss, drink your vitamins"
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RT123
96 posts
Mar 15, 2011
10:41 AM
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Why the hell do we call it a Larry? Now I am questioning my whole existence. Nobody else has heard of this? Your names make sense, Larry doesnt at all! Larry must have been a real wuss. The only Larry I really know was the guy from Three's Company and he was no wuss, he was a playa!
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Barry C.
195 posts
Mar 15, 2011
10:48 AM
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yes we call that a larry too (not to be confused with barry!)!
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harmonicanick
1121 posts
Mar 15, 2011
10:48 AM
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at £3.00 for a small bottle of beer in the pub who is gonna leave any?
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MrVerylongusername
1611 posts
Mar 15, 2011
1:47 PM
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Going off at a slight tangent,
I have a colleague whose husband is ex-army. She says he always leaves a little beer in each glass "for fallen comrades".
I don't know if this is widespread, but it seemed like a touching gesture
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J-Sin
36 posts
Mar 15, 2011
3:14 PM
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When I was emptying a bottle once My sister asked if I could "leave some Hiltons" to her.
"Hiltons?" I asked.
"Yeah. Hiltons. Thin and slimy", she replied. Referring, of course to Paris Hilton. I don't know if anyone else in the world calls it that.
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Rich
23 posts
Mar 15, 2011
3:25 PM
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We always called that bit the 'smeg' or 'smeggers'
eg: 'you aint leavin that are ya?
'yeah, its just the smeg'
Weird eh?
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