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• Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water. Sweedish Proverb
• Scott: "But when they can build ships like your Enterprise, who would want to pilot an old bucket like this?
  LaForge: "I don't know, if this ship were operational, I'd bet she'd run circles around the Enterprise at impulse speeds....
• Two Volkswagens had their bumpers locked and the drivers were unsuccessfully trying to disengage them when a little old lady wino shuffled onto the scene.
  Tell you what to do, boys," she cackled. "Throw a bucket of water on 'em!...
• VENTRILOQUIST Someone whose antics you get sick of after just a few minutes, and want to throw a bucket of water over just to see their dummy make blubbering noises.
  -- Daniel Bowen's TOXIC CUSTARPEDIA...
• CELSIUS, ANDERS (1701-44) Swedish astronomer. At the age of 25
  he had a raging argument with best friend Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit (1686-1736) when he claimed that Fahrenheit's system of measuring temperature was completely fucked, and that he could design a better system whilst standing on his head blindfolded in a bucket of lard....
• How many surrealists -- does it take to change a light bulb?
  Two. One to change it and one to throw a bucket of water out the window....
• Wisdom is in the head and not in the beard. Swedish Proverb
• Homer: All done. Marge: You're not done. I want you to throw away these old calendars and TV Guides.
  Homer: Are you mad, woman? You never know when an old calendar might come in handy....
• Don't empty the water jar until the rain falls. Philippine Proverb