On 6/29/2012 5:21 PM, Don Hanson wrote:
> Where did the term "kick the bucket" come from?  That one puzzles me.
You can google anything of course.
Wikit baby -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kick_the_bucket

the first line of that page -
"A common theory is that the idiom comes from a method of execution such
as hanging, or perhaps suicide, in the Middle Ages
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages>.^[3]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kick_the_bucket#cite_note-hh1-2> A noose
is tied around the neck while standing on an overturned bucket
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket>. When the pail is kicked away, the
victim is hanged <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging>."