Please help!!!

[podling]

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

What was the best thing *before* sliced bread?

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[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

fire

[nanne.livejournal.com]

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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[podling]

Peeled oranges? Explain!

Weeeeell... soon, soon my friend. Or, alternatively, you could go to www.bicrunga.com

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[podling]

Was that before or after the wheel?

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[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

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 . . .

[onezumi.livejournal.com]

SEX.

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[nanne.livejournal.com]

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".

[astrophysicat.livejournal.com]

Jeans of course.

the most liberating of clothing inventions.

but but

[astrophysicat.livejournal.com]

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.

[astrophysicat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it really would have sucked to have been around before they invented sex. I mean, Snap! how do you live?

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[podling]

But wasn't that the first best thing ever? Or is it just constantly rediscovered by new generations of sliced bread eating people?

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[podling]

Well, really, Levi Strauss was a great man. Who else has had that kind of influence over popular american culture?

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[podling]

Yeah, I didn't know sliced bread was sarcastic. Next he'll be telling me that peanut butter has opinions...

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[podling]

Without sex, there is no life. I think that's a zen proverb. ;)

in Zoolander/ Homer voice

[astrophysicat.livejournal.com]

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)