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An 1843 poster for Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal describes how the Victorian circus employed a hogshead in a most unusual fashion. The poster, advertising a performance in Rochdale, Lancashire, England, boasts: Mr Henderson will, for the first time in Rochdale, introduce his extraordinary TRAMPOLINE LEAPS and SOMERSETS! Over Men & Horses, through Hoops, over Garters, and lastly, through a Hogshead of REAL FIRE!" John Lennon borrows these same words as lyrics for The Beatles song, Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
On The Simpsons, Abraham Simpson stated, "The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it." (This is approximately 0.002 mpg, 10.5 feet per gallon, or 0.8 meters per liter). 40 rods make one furlong, so 8 hogsheads are needed for one mile.
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