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  1. Michael Birks says:

    Middling Win only: There’s no ‘Give it back to Lolrus’.

  2. Trinka says:

    haha I think this one is awesome. Except…now I’m going to have that bloody song stuck in my head all day!

    • james says:

      I’m a total pop-culture moron. What song?

      • TexRPC says:

        “There’s a hole in the bucket dear Liza dear Liza….”

        Weeee! WIN!

        James – check it out on youtube… I remember Sesame Street doing it.

      • Boter says:

        Yeah… I can has posted Cheat Sheet?

      • cross-cultural lulz says:

        Fun chart.
        This is actually “una cansone internazionale” … used to sing a version in italian when doing a bucket brigade at an archeology dig …

        “C’e’ un buco nel secchio, nel secchio, nel secchio …”

  3. guitarfreak says:

    Is there a really mad lolrus?

  4. guitarfreak says:

    Give it to him and RUN.

  5. dep says:

    Chart full of win! I just sang this song to my husband (who didn’t know it either) last week! Get outta my head!

  6. linox says:

    I’m sorry, am I the only one who thinks this graph sucks the humor out of the song? The whole (no pun intended) fun of the song is the personality of the characters — the apparent increasing dippiness of Henry and the corresponding exasperation of Liza, concluding by showing that he was just baiting her all along — and the incredibly long process of getting to the loop. Like this… it’s just explaining the joke rather than telling the joke. Poor james (and anyone else who has never heard this sung and now goes to look it up) doesn’t get to enjoy the joke now.

    • podgirl says:

      I think it’s possible that you read WAY to much into songs that second graders sing about holes in buckets. The graph is funny.

    • AnnaBanana says:

      While the humor may be dry, for those of us who like our humor in such a fashion, it is highly appropriate. For those who do now it, I hope it inspires them to find out more about it; Perhaps to find the Sesame Street would be appropriate inspiration.

  7. Michelle says:

    Ugh, that song. But if I didn’t have second graders singing to me 8 days a week, I wouldn’t get this either.

  8. Sami says:

    gosh… 2nd grade. What a magical year

  9. Jill says:

    I agree that there needs to be a lolrus in there somewhere.

    • E. Tufte says:

      The lolrus would have to be in the middle of the graph, watching the bukkit circle him, just out of reach…forever…

  10. D-mac says:

    Glad to know I’m not the only one who learned that song in elementary school!

  11. Christin says:

    Wow, that’s different from the version I learned, and removes the pun that was in the version I know. The one I know goes,
    The axe/knife is too dull.
    Then whet it!
    With what shall I whet it?
    A stone.
    The stone is too dry.
    Then wet it!

    The use of “sharpening” in the graph, omitting the whet/wet joke, makes me sad.

    • WeirdFish says:

      It would seem that people as a whole wouldn’t understand what whetting a blade means anymore, hence the “sharpening” instead of “whetting.” The Sesame Street version even used “sharpen” back in the…what was it, the ’80s?

  12. Vinegar says:

    OH GOD IT NEVER ENDS

  13. DOC says:

    All my life is a circle. Harry Chapin said it in song!

  14. AnnaBananaRama says:

    Would this not be more lolicious with buket instead of bucket?

  15. morgan says:

    in the song its knife not axe

  16. JM says:

    Eliza and Willy were some dumb motherf*ckers. Couldn’t they have used something other than straw to mend the bucket? Or couldn’t they have broken it with something other than an axe/knife? And if one stone’s too dry to sharpen the blade, what about another? Or couldn’t you at least get some water on the stone without the motherf*cking bucket? Lol!

  17. ritchie says:

    lol vicious circle


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