marijuanakills: (clementinecoffee)
marijuanakills ([personal profile] marijuanakills) wrote2010-11-06 07:01 pm

because dying is funny?

To refer to death as someone having "kicked the bucket" amuses me way more than it should.

[identity profile] cpsings4him.livejournal.com 2010-11-07 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
I've always wondered where that expression comes from. And yeah, as death euphemisms go, that's definitely the most humorous. "Tripped on a rainbow" follows as a close second. :p

[identity profile] marijuanakills.livejournal.com 2010-11-07 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
I've never heard "tripped on a rainbow"! That's awesome. :D

I always thought that maybe kicking the bucket had to do with someone hanging themselves by standing on a bucket and then tipping it out from under themselves with their feet, but I actually don't have a clue.

[identity profile] ashleybrooke7.livejournal.com 2010-11-07 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
I generally refer to the pending death of my grandma as her kicking the bucket, because the humor of it takes the edge off the grim reality :)

[identity profile] marijuanakills.livejournal.com 2010-11-07 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
<3

*hugs*