# "There were 15 buckets of brains in the doorway"
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-were-15-buckets-of-brains-in-the-doorway/126701
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 2, 2002, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-were-15-buckets-of-brains-in-the-doorway/126701 "2002-09-02T18:37:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@KellyM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KellyM)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2002, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-were-15-buckets-of-brains-in-the-doorway/126701/1 "2002-09-02T18:37:57Z")
From [this news article](http://www.sunone.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=GS&Date=20020830&Category=LOCAL&ArtNo=208300365&Ref=AR&Profile=1007):
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> “When I first walked in the door, there were 15 buckets of brains in the doorway,” she said. “He wasn’t studying all those brains. He was collecting them. He never opened one of those buckets in the 10 months I lived in that house.”
Ok, dear, if there were fifteen buckets of brains in the doorway, WHY DID YOU LIVE WITH HIM FOR TEN MONTHS?
The mind boggles.
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### Author:  [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2002, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-were-15-buckets-of-brains-in-the-doorway/126701/2 "2002-09-02T18:44:19Z")
I can see where there might be _some_ debate about your question, but I’m not sure I see it as a _Great_ debate.
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### Author:  [@KellyM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KellyM)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2002, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-were-15-buckets-of-brains-in-the-doorway/126701/3 "2002-09-02T19:39:44Z")
I meant to post this in MPSIMS. Apparently the hamsters had other ideas. Mods, please feel free to throw it over there.
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### Author:  [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2002, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-were-15-buckets-of-brains-in-the-doorway/126701/4 "2002-09-02T20:46:30Z")
While they move it to MPSIMS, maybe the woman thought the buckets were legal and part of his work?
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### Author:  [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2002, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-were-15-buckets-of-brains-in-the-doorway/126701/5 "2002-09-02T21:10:55Z")
Or maybe she was just _really_ needy…
But I like this, by a co-worker:
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> “But he was probably carried away by the excitement of his endeavor and it didn’t occur to him.”
–that people might have a problem with him collecting body parts at work and taking them home.
Egad.
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### Author:  [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2002, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-were-15-buckets-of-brains-in-the-doorway/126701/6 "2002-09-03T00:32:53Z")
I say he was just **absent-minded** 🆒
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2002, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-were-15-buckets-of-brains-in-the-doorway/126701/7 "2002-09-03T00:59:04Z")
Maybe he was a Ray Bolger fan.
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### Author:  [@Savaka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savaka)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2002, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-were-15-buckets-of-brains-in-the-doorway/126701/8 "2002-09-03T01:34:01Z")
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> \*Originally posted by KellyM \*
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> **Ok, dear, if there were fifteen buckets of brains in the doorway, WHY DID YOU LIVE WITH HIM FOR TEN MONTHS?**
Indeed. You would think someone would become suspicious after seeing anything over, say, nine buckets of brains.
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### Author:  [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2002, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-were-15-buckets-of-brains-in-the-doorway/126701/9 "2002-09-03T02:09:04Z")
[Moderator Hat ON]
Moving to MPSIMS.
[Moderator Hat OFF]
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### Author:  [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2002, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-were-15-buckets-of-brains-in-the-doorway/126701/10 "2002-09-03T03:19:16Z")
15 buckets of brains in the doorway,
15 buckets of brains,
If one of those buckets should happen to fall,
14 buckets of brains in the doorway!
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### Author:  [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2002, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-were-15-buckets-of-brains-in-the-doorway/126701/11 "2002-09-03T03:23:13Z")
[Kathleen Turner] Were you out on the lake today kissing your brain? [/Kathleen Turner]
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### Author:  [@Savaka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savaka)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2002, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-were-15-buckets-of-brains-in-the-doorway/126701/12 "2002-09-03T03:55:55Z")
Of course, you realize we’re all going to hell for posting in this thread.
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### Author:  [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2002, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-were-15-buckets-of-brains-in-the-doorway/126701/13 "2002-09-03T06:57:31Z")
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> It is Joe’s eccentricity that he brought his work home.
Some people take home office supplies others take home body parts.
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### Author:  [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2002, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-were-15-buckets-of-brains-in-the-doorway/126701/14 "2002-09-03T07:06:53Z")
I think there was something wrong in this guy’s head.
Maybe he wanted a replacement brain.
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### Author:  [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2002, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-were-15-buckets-of-brains-in-the-doorway/126701/15 "2002-09-03T07:11:11Z")
How did he get through the doorway?
“Oh, just step over the buckets of brains, honey.”
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### Author:  [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2002, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-were-15-buckets-of-brains-in-the-doorway/126701/16 "2002-09-03T10:31:26Z")
You people are merciless. Give the guy a break. He was most likely saving them for when the Living Dead started roaming his neighborhood.
“Oh, Brenda! Your brains smell so good… so rich and spicy.”
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### Author:  [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2002, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-were-15-buckets-of-brains-in-the-doorway/126701/17 "2002-09-03T13:59:11Z")
Can’t you all realize that she loved him more for his brains than his looks?
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### Author:  [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2002, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-were-15-buckets-of-brains-in-the-doorway/126701/18 "2002-09-03T17:49:27Z")
Fredrick: Would you mind telling me whose brain I did put in?
Igor: And you won’t be angry?
Fredrick: I will _not_ be angry!
Igor: Abby Someone.
Fredrick: Abby Someone. Abby Who?
Igor: Abby Normal.
Fredrick: Abby Normal.
Igor: I’m almost sure that was the name.
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### Author:  [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2002, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-were-15-buckets-of-brains-in-the-doorway/126701/19 "2002-09-03T19:04:58Z")
I imagine at some point she thought “okay, I’ll give him nine months to use those brains, but that’s it!”