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I am from Texas, lived here all my life, and I have never heard of this. Google here I come......
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United States
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Noun
Texas mickey (plural Texas mickeys)
1.(Canada, informal) A very large bottle of hard liquor, holding 3,000 ml (106 imperial oz. or 101 US oz.), or, formerly, one holding 133.3 oz.
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 A "Texas Mickey" ia a Canadianism ... or something  I'd guess a Canadian joke and play on words in reference to the joke that everythings bigger in Texas? It's a big bottle of booze (rye, rum or vodka I believe) that holds 3 litres/ 101 oz of booze. Many Canadians use them as piggy banks, tossing in their pennies or other coins. Just a big honkin big bottle of booze and sold in liquor stores. People tend to buy them as jokes and keep the bottles as a fun conversation piece. "Only In Canada"
Edited by Dottir
09/28/2011 8:50 pm
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United States
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I know for a fact that a gallon jar will hold approximately $53.00.
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I think they've been called Texas mickeys for a long time. I've never bought one (who can afford one? ) They're ridiculously big. Thanks Foolsgold. That gives me an approximate idea, so helps a lot! |
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Dottir,do not try this at home!
About forty years ago,after a party at my house,my brother-in-law and I decided to see how many pennies the empty Texas Mickey could hold.When it was about half full he decided to pick it up to see how heavy it was,the bottom fell out and landed on his foot cutting him quite severely.
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United States
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or if you do pick it up, wear some steel-toes!
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I'm lucky I don't have to pick the thing up so my toes aren't in danger A woman who works at a local store mentioned she has one full of pennies that she has to count and cash in. Of course I offered to buy them from her so I could quickly search them myself, then I'd cash them in fast as I can't tie up my groceries money for more than a couple/few days. If she doesn't count them so I can buy them within a couple more days she'll have to take them to the bank herself. I was hoping to search them as I haven't had pennies to search for a long time and I'm going through withdrawals here She better hurry as I'm running out of groceries! |
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wouldn't it be easier to weigh the loaded Mickey, deduct the weight of an empty, and divide the remainder by the known weight of a penny ... or count their legs and divide by four ...
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I'd jump on that! Offer 40 CAD
Using Foolsgold's $53 per gallon > 3 liters = 0.792 US gallons > 79.2 percent of 53 = 41.976 USD = 39.90 CAD
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Texas Mickey's can vary in size. I recently filled a 4.5 litre empty bottle of Grey Goose. It weighed 45 lbs when full. In Canada, pennies have ranged in weight from 2.2 grams to as much as 3.2 grams between the years of 1920-2012. I took an average of 2.8grams. There are 453.59 grams in a pound. That would mean 162 pennies in a pound. Assuming the empty bottle weighed 5lbs, that would leave approximately 40 lbs of pennies in my 4.5 litre bottle.. 40 x 162 = 6479.86. In my scenerio, I assume I have $65.00 worth of pennies in my Texas Mickey.
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 Watch your toes Kennyspinx.
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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Even worse, Canadian pennies can be copper (which had shifts in weight over the years), zinc, OR steel.
The weight of an "average penny" would change fairly large amounts depending on when it was put in the jar.
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You also need to take into consideration that the newer and lighter pennies are likely more prevalent in the population. I use 2.5g per cent for unsearched pennies and 2.8g per cent for my copper pennies. I figured out the average weight based on mintage numbers once but the piece of paper got thrown out.
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