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A good argument that having a "deleted" flag in a database is often a bad idea, and frequently nothing more than cargo cult programming. (The latter is true in my case.)
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I have occasionally wondered how one goes about fixing a hole in a bucket with straw. A commenter on the talk page for the song on Wikipedia explains.
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A collection of some impressive x-rays taken by a doctor over the course of fifteen years. Many of the x-rays are of humans, living and dead, after significant trauma, and aren't for the squeamish. Others are of everday objects, like seashells.
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the song that comes to my mind is actually Hank Williams’ “My Bucket’s Got a Hole in it,” a song whose lyrics are indelible in my mind because of the line “… I can’t buy no beer” — which indicates a time/context in which people bought beer by the bucket-full, supplying their own bucket.
Yeah, I didn’t understand that one until a few years ago, either. It was while reading about the history of the beer stein, which is apparently based on the concept of the bucket, only small enough to drink out of. Hence the lid.
One thing I really enjoyed while living in a small town in New Mexico a few years ago was that I could walk to the town brewery (about a block away) and get a growler of beer filled from the tap, which I then took back home for dinner.
Used a glass jar with a cap instead of a bucket, but that’s really just a refinement…