I'm bumping this because I hope a lot of people will get a chance to check out the gun thread that Front-Ranger so wisely posted. Clancypants has discovered a whole new, completely realized, extremely convincing metaphor that I for one hadn't even come close to thinking of. Once we got to buckets and coffee pots, I thought surely we had found every last one. Apparently not.
F-R is right to call clancypants remarkable. I had time to read just a few of his/her other posts, and they were awesome.