A “bucket list” is a list of things to do before one “kicks the bucket” (dies). “My Bucket List: Ice, Beer” is a jocular “bucket list” that has been printed on many images. Sometimes the “bucket list” includes the bucket.
The joke became popular in 2012. “My bucket list: 1.Get bucket 2. Get beer 3. Ice beer” was posted on Twitter on March 30, 2012. “My bucket list: Ice,beer” was posted on Twitter on August 10, 2012.
Wiktionary: bucket list
Etymology
From kick the bucket (“to die”) + list, hence a “list of things to do before you die”. The term was coined by American and British screenwriter Justin Zackham in his screenplay for the 2007 film The Bucket List. Zackham had created his own list called “Justin’s List of Things to Do Before I Kick the Bucket” which he then shortened to “Justin’s Bucket List”. The first item on his list was to have a screenplay produced at a major Hollywood studio. After a time, it occurred to him that the notion of a “bucket list” could itself be fodder for a film, so he wrote a screenplay about two dying men racing to complete their own bucket lists with the time they had left. Articles about the movie are the earliest known uses.
Pronunciation
Hyphenation: buck‧et list
Noun
bucket list (plural bucket lists)
1. (idiomatic) A list of things to accomplish before one’s death.
Twitter
mariah
@BeeZyTHC
My bucket list: 1.Get bucket 2. Get beer 3. Ice beer
10:14 AM - 30 Mar 2012
Twitter
SYLVIA the GEMINI
@dat_gemini_life
My bucket list: Ice,beer
10:13 AM - 10 Aug 2012
Twitter
Jeremy Puent
@jpuent
Bucket List:
Ice
Beer
8:00 AM - 9 Nov 2012
Twitter
mike maurais
@mbasil1967
Started bucket list got as far as bucket ice Beer then went to store to buy it
7:04 PM - 3 Jun 2013
Twitter
traceyjohnson
@__TJ__
Replying to @WilliamShatner
“@WilliamShatner: “@TKSaville: @WilliamShatner and what is on your bucket list this year?” Obviously a bucket…” Bucket, ice, beer. :D
12:42 PM - 1 Jan 2014
MexLOL.com
Mexican Bucket List: Ice, Beer
by WebMaster lol • July 11, 2014
Mexican Bucket List: Ice, Beer
Twitter
DM
@OneNash50
Replying to @officialheatfit
@willheat My bucket list: Bucket + Ice + Beer….done!!!😎
4:07 PM - 28 Dec 2014
Twitter
Minibar Delivery
@MinibarDelivery
On our bucket list today:
Bucket.
Ice.
Beer.
Celebrate National Beer Day! #NationalBeerDay
2:32 PM - 7 Apr 2015
Twitter
Earl Dibbles Jr
@EarlDibblesJr
My bucket list:
1: Ice
2: Beer
10:33 AM - 8 Feb 2017
Twitter
Shit Jokes
@ShitJokes
Bucket list:
1) Bucket
2) Ice
3) Beer
3:36 PM - 5 Jun 2017
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
Recent entries:
•“Never underestimate my desire at any given moment to go home” (4/23)
•“I’m a better person when I’m tan and holding a margarita” (4/23)
•“You ARE a good driver. That curb DOESN’T belong there” (4/23)
•“‘It’s been a long week.’—Me, in the middle of Tuesday” (4/23)
•“Buying frozen pizza is such a lie. ‘Oh I’ll save this for when I don’t feel like cooking’. Surprise, surprise. Day one” (4/22)
More new entries...
Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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