Right now, the GOP is racing headlong into a three-alarm fire with a bucket brigade.

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The Kindle Fire has thrown a bucket of water on the tablet craze.

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During the song Fire - part of a planned "Elements" suite - Wilson set a studio bucket alight and sent out to a toy store for fire helmets for the orchestra to wear.

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Ulster Unionist MLA Michael Copeland said he understood that there was a bang and people close by found a fire which they put out with a bucket of water.

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For example, he insisted that he hadn't been back to his tae kwon do dojo since April 15, before changing his story to say that he'd returned briefly one week later for a mop bucket, two pails and a fire extinguisher.

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If traditional wireless networks work like fire trucks, mesh networks are more like a bucket brigade.

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Of course, bucket brigades are a pretty inefficient way to fight a fire, delivering little water over a long period of time.

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The witness walked over with a bucket of water to extinguish what looked to be a small fire, then went back inside a building.

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If, like me, you are not categorically keen on Southeast Asian beach resorts, it is probably because you have been to Thailand's Phuket or Krabi, where you sat on heel-hammered sands drinking a warm gin and tonic from a literal bucket, wishing you'd discovered the place before the invention of fire-spinning, Katy Perry and laser shows.

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