1744 Billy Boys

I commented recently about the word hillbilly and where it came from. The etymology dictionary says it's from "hill" for hill and Billy for a masculine name. Interesting that Billy has become the name of choice for not only animal masculine references but objects as well.
Billy we see in animals like goats. It's also used in the song Waltzing Matilda to refer to a can in which water is boiled. The song makes it sound like he may be boiling a billy goat but the words actually refer to a can. Then there's the billy club, called such perhaps because it was used to hit Billys, or it's obvious masculine Freudian connotations.
The word Billy does seem to refer to the less than controlled aspects of masculine behavior. Perhaps because rowdiness and randyness go hand in hand. Males loaded with testosterone are often less than socially subdued. Like males loaded with Viagra.
Witness how society has changed since the advent of that drug. Viagra removed nature's braking system on male on-the-prowl behavior---age-related impotency. Now we see very older men making fools of themselves hitting on women that could be their daughters and not having to worry they can't back it up when the time comes.
Viagra took off the brakes and helped aging men rush headlong head-over-heels over the hill.
Crazy as a billy goat.
Now science has given them another tool. Yogurt. Remember how the image of a man's man was a guy with a big plate filled with a giant steak? And it's the wimpy nerd with the bowl of yogurt?
Recent research has shown that feeding mice probiotic yogurt increased their testicle size, and their potency, by 15%.
So we better ask the Betty Goat.
Does she want Billy... or Poindexter?
America, ya gotta love it.