Recording diary, day four: It's All Causes and Horrible Deaths.

[cadhla]

This entry represents a bit of catch-up on my part; thanks to things getting hectic as all, well, heck, I've managed to let the last two recording dates pass without my usual efforts at faithful chronicling. Please forgive anything I may happen to mistakenly miss. I'm only human, after all, and that puts certain limits on my recall of events.

Comments

[technoshaman]

food geek who doesn't like settling for Sara Lee!

Aaaaah. Smart man, that.

Oooh, and now you'll get it when I say, "big boo-TAY!" *grins* (I once stayed at a Santa Cruz geekhaus called "Yoyodyne".... : )

[vixyish]

I've always thought perhaps they are talking about eating a piece of cake. Which is, in most circumstances, pretty easy.

Love kills you in interesting horror movie ways, yo!

[mathochist]

I looked around online, and like most idioms, it's hard to track the origins. The most likely seems to be that it originally referred to cakewalks: competitions where the couple who walked with the most style and grace won a cake. Compared to other kinds of competition, that's pretty easy.

"Piece of cake" might also have originally referred to something being sweet and good and luxurious -- "life is a piece of cake" -- and then mutated into meaning easy to do.