Enjoy your sandwich...while you can

On this day in 2130, the phrase "the best thing since sliced bread" was officially retired from the English language. Despite--or, perhaps, because of--its everyday household use, there had long been no consensus on what was, indeed, the innovation wonderful enough to push sliced bread from the top spot.

That all changed when iMicroSony unveiled its new androids, which were so perfect in their execution that they could not be differentiated from real humans (yeah, it took us that long to get robots perfect, I know). The only behavioral difference that could be spotted was that the androids would pour oil into their right ears about once a day, and even this wasn't a surefire visual test--you see, ear-lubing had become the new heroin by about 2085.

The androids were very popular in Jewish circles. Horowitzes, Feinbergs, and Kleins were buying them up left and right. Having a non-human entity in the house was a handy way of getting things like cooking and cleaning done on Shabbat.

Of course, it was time for the "sliced bread" idiom to die, anyhow. After the French sided with the marauders from Xylon-6 in 2094, everybody stopped making fun of them. Largely because of that, we started to realize that their culture did have a lot to offer. Everybody switched to eating baguettes, and no one had eaten any sliced bread since the turn of the 22nd century.


By the way, Jimmy Jone #10 is up.