Comments on: Bucket Repair Flowchart

By: ritchie

ritchie — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:56:12 +0000

lol vicious circle

By: tyler

tyler — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:32:58 +0000

agreed, although i find the word “whet” much better & entertaining.

By: JM

JM — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:30:27 +0000

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!

By: morgan

morgan — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:13:56 +0000

in the song its knife not axe

By: AnnaBanana

AnnaBanana — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:09:31 +0000

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.

By: AnnaBananaRama

AnnaBananaRama — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:55:17 +0000

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

By: AnnaBananaRama

AnnaBananaRama — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:54:27 +0000

I did too! Rawk!

By: DOC

DOC — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:43:51 +0000

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

By: WeirdFish

WeirdFish — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:02:13 +0000

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?

By: E. Tufte

E. Tufte — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:45:20 +0000

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

By: Vinegar

Vinegar — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:28:52 +0000

OH GOD IT NEVER ENDS

By: Christin

Christin — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:51:53 +0000

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.

By: D-mac

D-mac — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:48:38 +0000

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

By: podgirl

podgirl — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:01:42 +0000

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.

By: Jill

Jill — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:55:17 +0000

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

By: Sami

Sami — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:24:02 +0000

gosh… 2nd grade. What a magical year

By: mydogpetey

mydogpetey — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:28:26 +0000

gagh.

http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=uKwVbtl1-lc

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:00:53 +0000

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

By: cross-cultural lulz

cross-cultural lulz — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:39:41 +0000

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 …”

By: linox

linox — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:07:08 +0000

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.

By: dep

dep — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:46:26 +0000

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

By: Boter

Boter — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:44:21 +0000

Yeah… I can has posted Cheat Sheet?

By: guitarfreak

guitarfreak — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:43:06 +0000

No. Caturday.

By: guitarfreak

guitarfreak — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:42:17 +0000

Give it to him and RUN.

By: guitarfreak

guitarfreak — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:41:37 +0000

Is there a really mad lolrus?

By: TexRPC

TexRPC — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:09:23 +0000

“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.

By: james

james — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:52:06 +0000

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

By: Lo'

Lo' — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:38:11 +0000

Oh totally. You pegged that one Mr. Birks. By the way, I am gonna need you to come in on Sunday.

By: Trinka

Trinka — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:14:40 +0000

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

By: Michael Birks

Michael Birks — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:05:25 +0000

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