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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2013 20:24:57 GMT
Obviously I could look it up, but I would very much prefer it if someone explained to me the origin of this expression.
It apparently refers to important things, but the term does not make it sound important at all.
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Post by htmb on Aug 26, 2013 20:29:44 GMT
I had been thinking the same thing, but actually looked it up. I don't really have a personal bucket list, so I will defer to someone else to explain the term.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2013 20:38:14 GMT
You are so helpful, retaining important information.
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Post by lugg on Aug 26, 2013 21:36:07 GMT
For me it is a term that describes the things I would like to do/ see
There are umpteen different explanations of the origins which links to the phrase "Kicking the bucket" -all relate to death I think.
I do have several bucket lists - short , medium and long term goals. Of course I ignore the implications of the " before kicking the bucket ")
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Post by Kimby on Aug 26, 2013 23:31:17 GMT
I first heard the term when the movie of the same name came out. It definitely has to do with things you want to do/see/accomplish before you die.
The trick is to get started on the list while you are still young and strong enough to do those things.
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Post by lagatta on Aug 27, 2013 0:58:52 GMT
Or when you really want to do them. Often as people get older, even if they are in reasonably good health, I think they are content with more modest goals.
I'm thinking of this sadly now, as an "ex-aunt" only a couple of years older than I am is dying. She was the much younger wife of my mum's much younger brother (who was almost my older brother, as actual older brother was unsatisfactory to put it very mildly). They split up, not out of lack of love, but because she thought he was putting his (socially-conscious) work ahead of their couple. They are still close though, and my cousins are close to her, especially since their birth mum has also died not long ago.
I have no idea whether she thinks she has achieved her dreams, although she has a very nice flat here (which I imagine her son will inherit, along with her two cats).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2013 5:34:51 GMT
I finally looked it up and apparently it is linked to kicking the bucket.
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Post by questa on Aug 27, 2013 10:38:19 GMT
So...what things are on your bucket lists? A group of my friends and I discussed our bucket lists about 4 years ago. We were all in our late sixties so decided we had better get on with it! Since then I have taken 3 travels off the list...Morocco, Iran and Sri Lanka. Trouble is, I keep adding more things to my list...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2013 12:09:38 GMT
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Post by mossie on Aug 27, 2013 16:40:55 GMT
I do wish you people would stop all these references to "kicking the bucket". I'm off first thing in the morning for me pre op assessment in preparation for my forthcoming new hip. I have to say when I first saw the thread title the term "basket case" immediately came to mind.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 27, 2013 18:22:42 GMT
Basket case is one I hadn't previously considered the origin of...
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Post by lagatta on Aug 27, 2013 20:31:39 GMT
I knew it alas. A poor soul in the trenches in the First World War who had both his arms and legs blown off and had to be carried around in a kind of basket (until he died, which perhaps mercifully didn't usually take very long).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2013 21:09:49 GMT
I am a bit annoyed at how people misread my original question. When I ask about the "origin" of a term, it doesn't mean that I don't know what the expression means. (OnlyMark was particularly guilty of this in the past.)
Lagatta, I had read that somewhere in the past, but I had completely forgotten the grim origin of this expression. Frankly, I always think of the 1982 unforgettable movie of the same name.
Okay, I know that anybody who missed this movie will never see it, so the thing in the basket is the deformed extrusion of the Siamese twin brother of the "hero."
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Post by lagatta on Aug 27, 2013 23:23:49 GMT
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