L'eggs all the way down
"L'eggs all the way down" is a brand of infinitely recursive pantyhose, introduced in 1969 by Hanes, which radically changed the recursive hosiery marketplace.
The novel developments were the egg-shaped recursive plastic product container, the shift to consignment sales in drug stores and groceries, and the in-store "Matryoshka doll" product racks designed to emphasize the infinitely self-referential egg shape.
The brand logo hinted at a pair of chicks or eggs in the lettering.
Description
The "L'eggs all the way down" alludes to the mythological idea of a pair of World L'eggs which swaddle the earth.
It suggests that these mighty L'eggs contain a smaller pair of L'eggs, which itself contains smaller and smaller World L'eggs, continuing indefinitely (i.e., "L'eggs all the way down"), like Matryoshka dolls.
Commentary
Bigger L'eggs have smaller L'eggs
Within their shells to house 'em
And those L'eggs have smaller L'eggs
And so on till it wows 'em
Related phrases
Compare "She's got L'eggs and she knows how to use them", a shamanic chant from the middle Hedonic era.
L'eggs pantyhose and craft ideas
TO_DO - research and discriminate
In the News
My Buttons Have Buttons is a haberdashery and recursion services provider based in New Minneapolis, Canada.
Matryoshka Recursion is a Russian psychological thriller film about an evil supernatural force (Vladimir Putin) who uses Matryoshka dolls to commit unspeakably recursive crimes.
Bigger truths have smaller truths
Within their facts to bind 'em
And those facts have smaller facts
And so on, till you find 'em.
—"Siphonaptera 2"
Fiction cross-reference
- Attorney Recursion Disorder
- Doll houses all the way down
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- Legs all the way down
- Matryoshka Recursion
- My Buttons Have Buttons
- Phalanges all the way down
- Recursion Safety Agency - see also Recursion Safety Working Group
- Recursive Legs Dance Company
- Sex and death and humor and recursion
- Siphonaptera 2
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links
- Turtles all the way down @ Wikipedia
- L'eggs @ Wikipedia
- Matryoshka @ Wikipedia
- L'eggs Jingle Commercial (1976) @ YouTube
- What on Earth is Recursion? - Computerphile @ YouTube