They do actually call it "The Bucket!"

[urbie]

Overheard on the 99 bus at Kennedy Plaza:

[60-ish drunk gets on and sees friend] Hey Joe, how ya doin'?

Joe: Not too bad. What'cha up to?

Drunk: I'm goin' to the Bucket, to get f890ed up!

[frymasterspeck]

Overheard on the 99 bus at Kennedy Plaza:

[60-ish drunk gets on and sees friend] Hey Joe, how ya doin'?

Joe: Not too bad. What'cha up to?

Drunk: I'm goin' to the Bucket, to get f890ed up!

[ArtInRuins]

Where the he11 did you get the idea that was a snob term?

Puhson I hud it from wenna sane rays, but she wut no snob. {The person I heard it from went to St. Raphael High School, but she was not snobbish in nature.}

The appellation is entirely homegrown. So, yeah, 60yo drunks.

[Cotuit]

Similar to what happened in Somerville... it was known as Slummerville, but because it was so expensive to live in Cambridge, and Somerville was RIGHT THERE, new people moved in and Slumemrville became a term of endearment.

[GabachaYucateca]

And the Cyber-Elite most certainly didn't coin it! All my little darlings who were born and bred in Woodlawn use it too!

[ArtInRuins]

And the Cyber-Elite most certainly didn't coin it! All my little darlings who were born and bred in Woodlawn use it too!