Re: Being Laid Off - Unemployment Benefits

["Cassandra Greer" <cassandra -at- greer -dot- de>]

> > 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
Snort - cough cough - Keyboard!!!!

Cass :)

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