"The best thing since sliced bread"

**Guru** · Jan 24th, 2002, 06:28 AM

Things are sometimes said to be "the best thing since sliced bread".

But....

what was the best thing BEFORE sliced bread?

**chrisjk** · Jan 24th, 2002, 06:34 AM

The wheel is infinately more useful than sliced bread.

**Gaffer** · Jan 24th, 2002, 06:35 AM

Not when you are gagging for a bacon sarnie, it ain't...

**Jamagei** · Jan 24th, 2002, 06:37 AM

What I want to know is why isn't the saying updated, if something is better than sliced bread then why isn't it something like "The best thing since computers" or "The best thing since a vaccine for AIDS"

**chrisjk** · Jan 24th, 2002, 06:41 AM

Originally posted by Gaffer
Not when you are gagging for a bacon sarnie, it ain't...

presumably we'd still have a normal loaf if we didn't have pre-slided bread. Therefore we could get an electric knife and slice it ourselves.

The wheel was responsible for getting the bread to the shop and to your house in the first place, therefore, wheel wins!

**DWillems** · Jan 24th, 2002, 06:44 AM

"Best thing since Golden Horse radish"

**Gaffer** · Jan 24th, 2002, 06:48 AM

On a personal level, at the present moment, a wheel is **** all use to me as there is a bacon shop opposite, and a bread shop behind it.

Unsliced bread, although tastier than sliced, is not favoured in many bacon establiments, therefore sliced becomes the "staple carbohydrate" of choice. Thus, in this scenario, is INDISPENSIBLE.

**chrisjk** · Jan 24th, 2002, 06:58 AM

but without the wheel, it would be impossible for the bacon shop to get the bacon, or to get the bread/ingredients for bread.

**InvisibleDuncan** · Jan 24th, 2002, 06:58 AM

Gaff: remind me not to come between you and your buttie. Seems like you take it seriously.

Surely, if something is the best thing since sliced bread, it implies that sliced bread is still better...?

**Guru** · Jan 24th, 2002, 07:02 AM

WHooa!

I asked "what was the best thing before sliced bread"

It stands to reason that it can't have been sliced bread (unless you really want to get stuck in a recursive loop!)

The wheel was invented long before sliced bread so seeing as no one ever says "the best thing since the wheel", sliced bread must have supassed the wheel.

So, perhaps the wheel was the best thing before sliced bread came along.

**Jamagei** · Jan 24th, 2002, 07:03 AM

Originally posted by InvisibleDuncan
Gaff: remind me not to come in your buttie. Seems like you take it personally

Too right, disgusting man

Originally posted by InvisibleDuncan
Surely, if something is the best thing since sliced bread, it implies that sliced bread is still better...?

Good point. Never saw it that way

**chrisjk** · Jan 24th, 2002, 07:06 AM

so we've decided it was the wheel then?

**Gaffer** · Jan 24th, 2002, 07:06 AM

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**InvisibleDuncan** · Jan 24th, 2002, 07:08 AM

Originally posted by Guru
WHooa!

I asked "what was the best thing before sliced bread"

It stands to reason that it can't have been sliced bread (unless you really want to get stuck in a recursive loop!)

The wheel was invented long before sliced bread so seeing as no one ever says "the best thing since the wheel", sliced bread must have supassed the wheel.

So, perhaps the wheel was the best thing before sliced bread came along.

I'd have to disagree. As I said above, the phrase implies that sliced bread is still better than the current thing in question. If the thing was better than sliced bread, then they'd have to go for the next one up. So, something that's better than sliced bread but not as good as the wheel would be "the best thing since the wheel".

Does that make sense? Hope so.

**chrisjk** · Jan 24th, 2002, 07:10 AM

so the wheel is the best thing both before and after sliced bread

**InvisibleDuncan** · Jan 24th, 2002, 07:12 AM

Yep. And sliced bread is the best thing since the wheel.

Except for bacon.

**Gaffer** · Jan 24th, 2002, 07:14 AM

...and breasts

**Jamagei** · Jan 24th, 2002, 07:16 AM

Mmmm Breasts

The best thing since breasts..... You'd have to go a long way....

**Gaffer** · Jan 24th, 2002, 07:18 AM

Surely no-one can dipute this. In fact, looing at it, Sliced Bread shouldn't have even got a LOOK in...

I think breasts even supercede bacon butties...

(not by much though )

**InvisibleDuncan** · Jan 24th, 2002, 07:20 AM

I take it we're not including man-boobs?

**DWillems** · Jan 24th, 2002, 07:20 AM

Breast are not man-made.

hang on ...

**darre1** · Jan 24th, 2002, 09:25 AM

Originally posted by DWillems
[B]Breast are not man-made.

just man-handled

**Gaffer** · Jan 24th, 2002, 09:30 AM

Originally posted by InvisibleDuncan
I take it we're not including man-boobs?

How can these be better than the wheel, sliced bread, or breats????

**chrisjk** · Jan 24th, 2002, 09:56 AM

urgrrghhh, nooo, take it away!!!

(that's not you is it?!)

**Gaffer** · Jan 24th, 2002, 09:58 AM

Chris, look at the link

http://www.torontoplasticsurgery.com/images

**chrisjk** · Jan 24th, 2002, 10:01 AM

joking dude

**Gaffer** · Jan 24th, 2002, 10:14 AM

Just sensitive about my breasts

wanna look?

**beachbum** · Jan 24th, 2002, 07:24 PM

Only if your breasts don't include a similar number of gouges and marks of the devil as your thumb in that prev post!!

I still havent been able to eat or sleep properly since then...

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