| Subject: | Re: More NVC--two great summer reads for travelling the west-Bucket List |
| From: | Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM> |
| Date: | Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:20:11 -0700 |
On 6/29/2012 5:21 PM, Don Hanson wrote:
> Where did the term "kick the bucket" come from? That one puzzles me.
You can google anything of course.
Wikit baby -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kick_the_bucket
the first line of that page -
"A common theory is that the idiom comes from a method of execution such
as hanging, or perhaps suicide, in the Middle Ages
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages>.^[3]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kick_the_bucket#cite_note-hh1-2> A noose
is tied around the neck while standing on an overturned bucket
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket>. When the pail is kicked away, the
victim is hanged <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging>."
