English wine cask units the mediæval French and Italian "botte") or pipe was half a tun, or 1008 pints. Tradition has it that George, Duke of Clarence, the brother of Edward IV of England, was drowned in a butt of malmsey on 18 February 1478. (However, Josephine Tey in "The Daughter of Time" suggests that "drowned in a butt of malmsey" means rather that George, Duke of Clarence, drank himself to death rather than literally drowning in a container of wine.) In Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Cask of Amontillado", the narrator claims he has received "a pipe of what passes for Amontillado".
Who Was in My Room Last Night? consuming it, experiences some bizarre hallucinations (mostly involving the bar's waitress (played by Therese Kablan) who is depicted as the man's girlfriend, a nurse, and a series of creatures) before he suffers an apparent accident and is last seen falling down a void of cartoon skulls. The video was shown in the "Beavis and Butt-head" episode "No Laughing". A cover version of this song was featured on the 2007 video game "Guitar Hero II". Who Was in My Room Last Night? "Who Was in My Room Last Night?" is the opening track from American alternative rock band Butthole Surfers' sixth