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The Golden Ratio Podcast

265. Bermuda Hundred

The Golden Ratio Podcast

The Golden Ratio

Comedy

5.01.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Bermuda Hundred, named after Bermuda the islands and hundred, the land to support 100 homesteads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_Hundred,_Virginia#Source_of_name If you want to support the squad, you can follow us on Patreon for *lots* of bonus content, including patreon-only no rulez podcasts every few weeks http://patreon.com/thegoldenratio4/

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, welcome to the Golden ratio podcast. I am Jen, G.R. Mom, joined us always

0:14.3

by GRD. Hi. Hello, G.R. Dad. How's it going?

0:18.8

Good. Excellent. Excellent. Yeah, yeah.

0:22.0

The cocktail of the week this week is the Bermuda 100. That's a good name, right? Why?

0:28.0

Bermuda 100. I don't know why it's called that. They don't tell me that.

0:31.2

Is that 100 proof? No, the Bermuda 100 is 1 and a half ounces of gin. 1 and a half

0:38.6

ounces of pineapple juice. Okay. Campari lime juice or jihad syrup. This 100 is

0:46.3

now puzzling me. I have no idea why it's called that. Is it metric? In metric, that's

0:53.2

that's 100. I'm googling Bermuda 100 to see if it. Oh, Bermuda 100 is a town in Virginia.

1:00.8

What now? No, what? No. What? Bermuda 100 was the first administrative... Oh, this is

1:05.8

probably what it's named for. Bermuda 100 was the first administrative division in the

1:11.0

English colony of Virginia. It was founded by Sir Thomas Dale in 1613, six years after

1:18.8

Jamestown. Wow. The terminology Bermuda 100 also included a large area adjacent to the

1:25.0

town. In Colony, Errol, Errol hundreds were large developments of many acres arising

1:32.6

from the English term to define an area which would support 100 homesteads. Oh, that's

1:38.4

so weird. There you go. That's cool. So it's like an acre, right? What is it? The amount

1:45.0

of land that can be heard plowed by one man and one oxen in one day. Yeah. But 100 would

1:51.7

be way, way bigger than that. 100 would be a bunch of homesteads, like a bunch of homesteads.

1:56.1

A bunch of them. Yeah. Why is it called Bermuda? No, that can't be.

2:02.0

100? I don't know. Was Bermuda like... It was British.

2:08.8

But was it British in 1613? Yeah, why not? Like... I mean, I don't know when the

2:15.1

Brits got there and... I don't know. Now they all wear Bermuda pants, Bermuda shorts.

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