Your point is wasted on me,Raedwulf. There are many entertaining and interesting bits of history tied up in this bit of theatre folklore--all of which you miss out on if you dismiss the central conceit--

As for the business about the butter side of the bread falling down and such things--you will be surprised to find that it does, and you can read how physicist Robert A.J. Matthews established that QED was wrong-Tumbling toast, Murphy's Law and the Fundamental Constants --

All I know is, Everything You Know Is Wrong!!!!!!