Etymology of "It's been a slice!", "It's been a real slice!"?

[Laurence Horn]

On Sep 25, 2013, at 6:28 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> I heard the ironical "It's been a slice" from a fellow graduate student in
> 1975. He told me he'd first heard it a year or two earlier, and that it was
> short for "a slice of life."
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> JL

I did manage to confirm that there are instances out there for "It's been a slice (of pizza)", but nobody seems to be suggesting that as an actual derivation.

LH
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> On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Ann Burlingham <ann at burlinghambooks.com>wrote:
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>> As a speaker, I'd say it's a truncation of "slice of life", but I can't
>> offer more than my feeling for that. It's in the same realm as "it's been
>> nice and it's been real, but I can't say it's been real nice" as a jocular
>> farewell.
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