Loose Parts by Dave Blazek for December 05, 2024

He’s toast now…

Let’s hope he doesn’t pop up.

He might have been the guy who put a pop-up spring in a toaster, but electric toasters were around for years with side panels and no spring loaders. And toasters were around for centuries before that, specialized forks for use with fire.

You should see the grave of the guy who invented Viagra.

The first electric toaster was invented by Alan MacMasters in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1893…

Actually, the first toaster didn’t pop up. My mother had one. There were two hinged doors on opposite sides. Toasted one side at a time. You flipped the doors open and reversed the bread to toast the second. Didn’t take long for the second generation toaster to appear.

We were talking about the invention of the toaster just the other day. It popped up in the conversation.

So why aren’t one white and the other one black?

He’ll pop up when you least expect it. Smokin’ and bit charred on one corner.

He was murdered in the early 1900s by a mob of unemployed English toastmaids.

And the family breadwinner.

I always figured he was the first to get electrocuted in the bathtub

“Let’s give him a toast.”

May he rest in two to four pieces.

Only if you can move the bread up and down, or it has motor to move them up/down continuously.

Helped revolutionize banking.

“All round the mulberry bush, the monkey chased the weasel…”

Just hope he doesn’t decide to suddenly pop up.

Pop tarts anyone?