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27 March 2006

This thread is a bucket. Please dump things in the bucket. Thank you.

post by: moonbird at: 14:24 | 29 comments

*Puts a just slightly smaller bucket inside the bucket*

posted by PinkStainlessTail 27 March | 14:26

*puts a ghost crab in the bucket*

posted by Miko 27 March | 14:27

There's a whole in the old oaken bucket. Fuck, Fuck, Fuck it.

(that's something we used to say in high school. I have no idea why)

posted by jonmc 27 March | 14:27

I'll have a bucket of steamers cooked in wine and garlic and a bucket of beer, then put me in a bucket and carry me home.

posted by Divine_Wino 27 March | 14:29

There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza. There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, a hole!

posted by jrossi4r 27 March | 14:29

Intro: [d] ...[a7] ...[d] ... [d7]
Yea! my bucket’s got a [g] hole in it
Yea! my bucket’s got a [d] hole in it
Yea! my bucket’s got a [a7] hole in it
I can’t buy no [d] beer.

Well I’m standin’ on a [g] corner - with a bucket in my [d] hand
I’m waitin’ for a [a7] woman - that ain’t got no [d] man.

2nd chorus
’cause my bucket’s got a [g] hole in it
Yea! my bucket’s got a [d] hole in it
Yea! my bucket’s got a [a7] hole in it
I can’t buy no [d] beer.

Well, I went upon the [g] mountain - I looked down in the [d] sea
I seen the crabs and the [a7] fishes - doin’ the be-bop-[d] bee.

2nd chorus

Well, there ain’t no [g] use - of me workin’ so [d] hard
When I got a [a7] woman - in the boss man’s [d] yard.

2nd chorus

Extra verse.

Well, me and my baby - we just bought a ford
And now we sit together - on the running board.

1st chorus

posted by cobra! 27 March | 14:32

There was a young woman from Nantucket
Whose. . .

posted by mygothlaundry 27 March | 14:33

*deposits bits*

posted by mike9322 27 March | 14:33

here,
right here is the edge of things,

and it takes so little to pull back to the happy ending.
She’ll cry when she shouldn’t cry,
elicit a sympathetic ear,
or he’ll ask her a question which,
although unrelated,
will lead to a resolution.

The phone call he takes instead of her,
the badly hidden note,
the conversation with the busy body neighbor.
the friend who knows a friend who knows someone
who has a handle on the situation.

Or, even, she’ll get through it on her own,
realise that things are not that bad,
that there’s no need to go so far.

But, we’re on the edge of things,
and out here,
in this dust-bowl cartoon town
the odds are out to
fuck everyone over.

I'm trying to write at the moment. Jeez - Why does the internet mock me so.

posted by seanyboy 27 March | 14:35

nice work seanyboy

posted by Miko 27 March | 14:36

a bucket of beer

I could go for a growler right about now.

*Places another smaller bucket in the bucket*

posted by PinkStainlessTail 27 March | 14:37

Here is my pain.

My angst.

My debt.

My job.

Now I am running away to be free.

posted by Lola_G 27 March | 14:46

This isn't the Bucket of Truth, right?

posted by cmonkey 27 March | 14:51

Any hope of having a productive day, it looks like.

And 19 cents loose change.

posted by Zozo 27 March | 14:51

I hate the way people in the tech industry use the word "bucket" as jargon for "category".

posted by matildaben 27 March | 15:31

I agree, matildaben. There's a guy in my office who does that, and I interrupt him every time, saying, "I don't understand... we're supposed to use buckets for something?"

And he looks at me with pity, saying, "No, it's a metaphor."

I say, "I'd be more comfortable if you'd use a familiar metaphor, like 'category' or 'partition' or even 'folder.'"

posted by Hugh Janus 27 March | 15:35

*puts the lotion in the bucket*

posted by TrishaLynn 27 March | 15:40

[admires the bucket and its contents from afar, whilst the grate of client firing dissipates, and knowing life goes on]

posted by chewatadistance 27 March | 15:46

Unnnnnnnnnggggh!

...you may not wanna drop anything in there for a while.

posted by By the Grace of God 27 March | 15:49

EEEW, THAT's GRO- o- o- ogghu- kee- chuuuu- fluuu- -kkchaack graaack ACK! KA- chu- KACK! Eaaawrack!

*wipes mouth*

...yeah, you may not want to drop anything in there, ever.

posted by Hugh Janus 27 March | 15:59

*Drops a pig in the bucket*

posted by PinkStainlessTail 27 March | 16:07

*sticks her foot in it, hobbles around a bit, falls over*

posted by deborah 27 March | 16:32

*Drops Hugh Janus' coworker in the now-disgusting bucket.*

posted by elizard 27 March | 16:42

...head first.

posted by elizard 27 March | 16:43

*puts the lotion in the bucket*

Bless your heart girl!

posted by Divine_Wino 27 March | 16:54

There's a hole in my bucket,
Dear Eliza, dear Eliza
There's a hole in the bucket,
Dear Eliza, there's a hole.

Then fix it, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, dear Henry
Then fix it, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, fix it.

...

posted by porpoise 27 March | 17:07

*blinks upwards at TrishaLynn. Awaits hose*

posted by seanyboy 27 March | 17:11

well anyway - I have finished my writing for the night. Nothing I'm particularly happy with, but we'll see what the writing group has to say about it. One postmodern piece about the inability for literature to find the happy ending and a subversive thing about how disgusting spring is. Am most pleased with the phrase "a cacophony of mitosis"

We'll see.
Oh - and for dinner, I couldn't find my tin opener. Very boring dinner. What's most annoying me is I've just noticed it next to my computer. Damn you - migrating tin opener!!!

posted by seanyboy 27 March | 17:16

PeeWee's on--right now--on Bravo : >

*puts in a button and some abc gum too*

posted by amberglow 27 March | 19:50

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