So how exactly does one fix a bucket with a straw?

[conuly]

(Dear Liza, dear Liza?)

Also, if I were Henry, I wouldn't hang around after that last verse. I'm just saying, that's the sort of conversation that can only end badly.

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[onyxlynx]

Hee hee!!

[othercat]

a conversation best held at a distance. say about a thousand miles of distance. over the phone.

[conuly]

At the end of it, I'd walk a thousand miles if I could just kill him... tonight.

[steorra]

I've always wondered that too.

Current theory: the bucket is a wooden pail with slats vertical(ish) along the side of the pail. The hole isn't a hole pierced through the bucket; it's a crack between the boards on one side. You can temporarily fix it by jamming a piece of straw vertically into the crack.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Fold the straw over till it's about the right thickness; twist it into a corkscrew; screw it into the hole so it fits tight: the water will make it expand a little, to serve as a makeshift cork.

Or, from here (http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=122109): "You're all wrong. In the old days, the bottoms of wooden buckets were made from multiple slats of wood instead of a single piece of wood. If you left the bucket out in the cold with a little water in it and it froze, the spaces between the slats would expand and comprise a leak or "hole". Wedging a single wheat straw (horizontally) into the gap would repair the leak for reasons (expands when wet etc.) stated above. You would need the straw to be the proper length to fill the entire "crack". If too long it would need to be cut to the proper size."

[conuly]

Oh, thanks :)

Buuuuut... what if the straw is too long?

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Then bite it, dear Henry, dear Henry.

[conuly]

Yummy straw, nomnomnom.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.