Wordplay/ What's fun about the HPs?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 152603

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "steven1965aaa" <steven1965aaa at ...> wrote:
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67@> 
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> I think that [snip]the Hog's Head Inn grew out of the "hog-" prefix 
> and the colorful names of English towns and inns in general. 
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> Steven1965aaa:
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> One prior use of "Hogs Head" I can think of, just for fun:
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> "Over men and horses hoops and garters
> Lastly through a hogshead of real fire!
> In this way Mr. K will challenge the world!"
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> "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite", the Beatles.

Geoff:
I think this is a different usage to that of "Hog's Head" as a pub name.

It refers, I suspect, to a "hogshead" which is a large cask of wine or 
beer and also used to describe a measure of wine or beer of just over 
50 Imperial gallons.