Re: Being Laid Off - Unemployment Benefits

[doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com]

On Sunday 26 February 2006 14:32, Al Geist wrote:
> doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com wrote:
> >We are, of course, doggedly persistent and will eventually get a piece of
> > any problem we identiy and tackle.  To wit, I share my Thought for the
> > Weekend:

> These statistics raise the question....what did they do before beer

Buckets, I think.  The number of hours in a day was established according to a 
sunrise/sunrise count of how many times a bucket of beer would drain itself 
through leakage, sort of like a beer hourglass.  Curiously, bucket size did 
not matter to these early clock-watchers, and the standard gin bucket of 
today emerged only after beer people became dissatisfied and sought out 
something with more kick to the bootful, a quest which also left us with many 
colorful references in the language:  a-drop (it) in the bucket, kick (in) 
the bucket, and of course the Appalachian folk music classic "My Bucket's Got 
a Hole In It."

Hope this helps,

--Ned
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