The greatest thing since I-don't-know-what!

I just found out that today is the centennial of one of the most innovative inventions of the kitchen. I'm speaking, of course, of the electric toaster.

Before the electric toaster, people probably performed alchemy on slices of bread by channeling the fire-demons. But holding a piece of bread in a campfire or wood-burning stove proved to be dangerous - after all, fire-demons tend to bite at mortal fingers.

Bill Watterson's character, Hobbes asks, "but where does the toast go?" Since we no longer rely on witchcraft, the bread is merely a tribute to the former sacrificial ways - yet the bread is still necessary. Without the bread, there would be a spacial disturbance when the toast appears.

Anyway, happy birthday, Toaster!

Your the greatest thing since I-don't-know-what!

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D. Phillips