One slice short of a sandwich
There are many phrases of the form 'an X short of a Y'. These all mean the same thing, that is, the person being spoken of is stupid or crazy.
'A sandwich short of a picnic' is fairly recent. The first citation of it that has been documented is from the BBC's Lenny Henry Christmas Special, December 1987. In that, Henry performed I'm Mad, a spoof song and dance routine written by Kim Fuller and others. This aped Michael Jackson's 1983 hit Bad. Henry, in a straitjacket, sings 'I'm mad, I'm mad', while the backing vocalists sing:
He's mad, mad, one brick short of a load
He's mad, mad, one sandwich short of a picnic
This sandwich picture is inspired by Piet Mondriaan a Dutch painter and theoretician who is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th-century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements.
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One slice short of a sandwich
There are many phrases of the form 'an X short of a Y'. These all mean the same thing, that is, the person being spoken of is stupid or crazy.
'A sandwich short of a picnic' is fairly recent. The first citation of it that has been documented is from the BBC's Lenny Henry Christmas Special, December 1987. In that, Henry performed I'm Mad, a spoof song and dance routine written by Kim Fuller and others. This aped Michael Jackson's 1983 hit Bad. Henry, in a straitjacket, sings 'I'm mad, I'm mad', while the backing vocalists sing:
He's mad, mad, one brick short of a load
He's mad, mad, one sandwich short of a picnic
This sandwich picture is inspired by Piet Mondriaan a Dutch painter and theoretician who is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th-century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements.
We're here visiting Sandwiched