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podling ([personal profile] podling) wrote2002-07-17 09:49 am

Please help!!!

So I keep coming back to this in my head...

What was the best thing *before* sliced bread?

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[identity profile] gwynraven.livejournal.com 2002-07-17 08:05 am (UTC)(link)
ah yes, I stand corrected -- sliced bread was the best thing since the wheel, and the wheel was the best thing since fire. Hmm . . . wonder where the printing press fits in there . . .

[identity profile] nanne.livejournal.com 2002-07-17 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
Peeled oranges.

And when do I get to hear any Bic Runga myself? Quoting obscure New Zealand singers is not helpful to us local cultural barbarians.

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[identity profile] nanne.livejournal.com 2002-07-18 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
Peeled oranges: humans ate oranges before they ate were able to make bread - therefore the thought to peel them instead of just biting in them must have been Nobel type stuff. And it is in keeping with the food and vague sarcasm style of the expression "sliced bread".

but but

[identity profile] astrophysicat.livejournal.com 2002-07-18 08:08 am (UTC)(link)
Sliced bread is cool! The big gadget that slices them all evenly so none are too thick or too thin (very important for fitting the sweetbread into the toaster at the bakery...). And having bread in a plastic bag that keeps for a week or more without going stale. What could be more "american"? You and your fancy european breads that you have to slice yourself and that go bad in a day. Silly rabbit.

[identity profile] astrophysicat.livejournal.com 2002-07-18 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it really would have sucked to have been around before they invented sex. I mean, Snap! how do you live?

in Zoolander/ Homer voice

[identity profile] astrophysicat.livejournal.com 2002-07-18 10:40 am (UTC)(link)
yeah, right, a pornographic zen saying.

boom chicka boom, Oooooom, Ooooom. (last two require the hands making a big oval coming together palm to palm gesture)

[identity profile] astrophysicat.livejournal.com 2002-07-18 08:03 am (UTC)(link)
Jeans of course.

the most liberating of clothing inventions.