Comments | fandom_grammar: SAY WHAT?: "Half a loaf is better than no bread" versus “The bread always falls butter side down."

achacunsagloire in fandom_grammar

SAY WHAT?: "Half a loaf is better than no bread" versus “The bread always falls butter side down."

Jun 26, 2015 23:22

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heliopausa June 27 2015, 14:54:32 UTC

Thanks! The early "half a loaf" info was fun - and the buttered bread, too.
(The version that I know of the ditty you quote from the Knickerbocker specifies that the toast "fell upon the sanded floor" - which adds another dimension of irretrievable disaster to the fall. :) )

achacunsagloire June 27 2015, 15:54:14 UTC

Haha! The 10-second rule is completely useless in that instance. :3