bbl? I don't get it

[pacanis]

From repetition of seeing it here and the sister forum, and because I am not totally stupid, I have come to the conclusion that "bbl" stands for barrel. At least that's my azzumption.
But why?

When someone types ppl it sounds like people when you look at it. PeoPLe. It reads like a vanity plate. I get the abbreviation.

But unless you stutter, why is bbl barrel? Wouldn't brl be more appropriate?
Unless... but I don't think... it stands for blued barrel. That I can get behind.

Maybe it stands for something totally different and I'm just not putting 2 and 2 together?

 

[Ninering62]

From repetition of seeing it here and the sister forum, and because I am not totally stupid, I have come to the conclusion that "bbl" stands for barrel. At least that's my azzumption.
But why?

When someone types ppl it sounds like people when you look at it. PeoPLe. It reads like a vanity plate. I get the abbreviation.

But unless you stutter, why is bbl barrel? Wouldn't brl be more appropriate?
Unless... but I don't think... it stands for blued barrel. That I can get behind.

Maybe it stands for something totally different and I'm just not putting 2 and 2 together?

I've wondered how the hell that BBL - for barrel came to be as well.

 

[pacanis]

For all I know it was a typo and the rest of the lemmings followed

 

[deermanok]

I don't understand either. Why not BRL?

 

[earlwb]

It is actually a old oil barrel term. Back in the 1860s a oil company made wooden 42 gallon barrels and they painted the barrels blue. Thus BBL was a abbreviation for blue barrel. It had nothing to do with a gun barrel.

Ref Where Does That 2nd 'B' in the Abbreviation for Crude Barrels (BBL) Come From?

 

[anonymouscowherd]

bbl is traditional from stock market notations in relation to oil/oil futures

 

[Ninering62]

For all I know it was a typo and the rest of the lemmings followed

That is exactly my thoughts on its origin

 

[Decay]

I thought a guy with a bong started it

 

[Ninering62]

I thought a guy with a bong started it

Well it wasn't me.

 

[bronko220002]

IDK (I don't know) who started it and IDC (I don't care). BTW (By the way) YOLO (you only live once) so DWBH (don't worry, be happy)!!!!

 

[pacanis]

LOL, it doesn't bother me that bad.
I just found it to be an odd abbreviation

 

[xtremex]

Sort of like making pulled pork. It's called a butt roast but it's from the hogs shoulder. I believe the butt was a wooden barrel that the roast was shipped in.