“Best the wife and I can come up with is, that’s how granny cut up his sandwiches as a boy.”
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Yeah, that’s what I got as well.
Shouldn’t the sides of the box (crusts) be trimmed as well?
The sandwich thing makes more sense, but my mind went to quilts, and patterns on them that are often in triangles.
My mind just went to ‘Oh, granny can do it both better and fancier’
Doesn’t anyone want to congratulate Mr. Copperfield on finally getting his stuff cut the way he wants it, rather than as enforced by his ancestress?
P.S. Of course, there are all sorts of ways to do a PB&J wrong:
I was thinking something along the lines of a square knot vs a granny knot.
Did Granny make a lot of pies, therefore the pie-shaped pieces?
Ha. I was going to go find that Calvin and Hobbes strip, but Kilby saved me the trouble. Naturally that means that the sandwich take on the CIDU strip was mine as well.
I like SMB’s idea of the granny knot, but I don’t see it here. I guess the sandwich is Hilburn’s cut on it.
I’m slightly put off about it naming the existent David Copperfield instead of a generic or invented magician. Just that it leaves me with comic-irrelevant questions like “Did the real D.C. typically perform the sawn-in-half person trick?”
@ deety (10) – I normally dislike gratuitous topical references, but I was just about to give Hilburn a pass on this one, until I tried a counter-example, substituting “The Amazing Presto” (which just happens to have exactly the same number of letters). You are right: it would have been much better.
P.S. Given Copperfield’s checkered history of litigation, it’s a little surprising that Hilburn decided to use him as a target. Perhaps he got a product placement fee?
P.P.S. And yes, Copperfield does indeed do the “sawing” trick, including one time on none other than Taylor Swift.
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Yeah, that’s what I got as well.
Shouldn’t the sides of the box (crusts) be trimmed as well?
The sandwich thing makes more sense, but my mind went to quilts, and patterns on them that are often in triangles.
My mind just went to ‘Oh, granny can do it both better and fancier’
Doesn’t anyone want to congratulate Mr. Copperfield on finally getting his stuff cut the way he wants it, rather than as enforced by his ancestress?
P.S. Of course, there are all sorts of ways to do a PB&J wrong:
I was thinking something along the lines of a square knot vs a granny knot.
Did Granny make a lot of pies, therefore the pie-shaped pieces?
Ha. I was going to go find that Calvin and Hobbes strip, but Kilby saved me the trouble. Naturally that means that the sandwich take on the CIDU strip was mine as well.
I like SMB’s idea of the granny knot, but I don’t see it here. I guess the sandwich is Hilburn’s cut on it.
I’m slightly put off about it naming the existent David Copperfield instead of a generic or invented magician. Just that it leaves me with comic-irrelevant questions like “Did the real D.C. typically perform the sawn-in-half person trick?”
@ deety (10) – I normally dislike gratuitous topical references, but I was just about to give Hilburn a pass on this one, until I tried a counter-example, substituting “The Amazing Presto” (which just happens to have exactly the same number of letters). You are right: it would have been much better.
P.S. Given Copperfield’s checkered history of litigation, it’s a little surprising that Hilburn decided to use him as a target. Perhaps he got a product placement fee?
P.P.S. And yes, Copperfield does indeed do the “sawing” trick, including one time on none other than Taylor Swift.