How much is a shit ton?
Abusing notation 15% of my brain
How much is a shit ton? About three mother loads.1
2013
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Although you may dig a load of ore out of a mother lode, the spelling “motherload” is a mistake that is probably influenced by people thinking it means something like “the mother of all loads.” A “lode” was originally a stream of water, but by analogy it became a vein of metal ore. Miners of precious metals dream of finding a really rich vein, which they refer to as a “mother lode,” most often spelled as two words, though you also commonly see it spelled as one. From
https://brians.wsu.edu/2016/05/25/motherload/↩