One Sandwich Short of a Picnic

One sandwich short of a picinic is a colloquial term for stupid There are many pharses of the form 'an X short of a Y'.These all mean the same thing,[ie] the person being spoken of is stupid.The 'short of ' insult began in Australia and Newzealand in the mid - 19th cetury. For example,colonel Godfrey Mundy's Our Antipodes,1852."Let no man having,in colonial phrase,'a shingle short’ try this country.He will pass his days in tarban Creek Asylum”. Of course,shingles are wooden tiles and many of these phrases refer to having something loose or missing ‘up top’ - ‘a few slates missing, ‘ a screw loose’. ‘A sandwich short of a picnic is fairly recent. The first citation of it that has been documented is from the BBC’s Lenny Henny Christmas special,December 1987.In that,Henry perfomed 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 straightjacket, sings ‘I’m mad,while the backing vocalists sing: he’s mad,mad,one brick short of load’. Do You want full information visit secondpen.com