Besides, what am I going to do with a miniature sliver of soap?
She handed me a locker key on an elastic loop, a sliver of soap, and a towel the size and texture of a dish towel.
Key contents: an almost exhausted tube of toothpaste which weighs nothing and doesn't show up at baggage control; a sliver of soap; a battery-powered razor, using the kind of AA batteries that you can recharge from a USB port on the computer.
These included an ashtray, a cobweb, a canceled stamp, a dead houseplant, a used tea bag, a sliver of soap, a ball of twine, a bingo card, an empty paint can, a Thanksgiving turkey, a blue-ribbon pie, a bathroom scale, a bald man's comb, an ostrich, a skunk, a major-league baseball team and — in perhaps the most blatantly criminal act of all — an overdue library book.
It's like you keep the soap until the tiniest sliver of soap is in the thing, and you have a shower that kind of hits you with a blast of cold water every couple of minutes.
"To go from a patched oven mitt and a washcloth full of soap slivers, to $14,000 a month?" says Chast. "You have to look at it as a black comedy.
A Little Bit of Soap - De La Soul Much more than a skit, this sliver from their classic Three Feet High and Rising album incorporated a plea for personal hygiene and a dig at Right Guard with a chance to sample the Marvells' soul gem of the same name.
It would also literally taste of soap.
