[lit-ideas] Adam's Spare Rib -- and His Navel
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:53:57 EDT
Life is what you make it,
As someone once observed,
A phrase that sounds a trifle glib,
But whoever thought it out
Had clearly never sorted out
The vexing problem -- of Adam's spare rib."
Noel Coward, _Time and Again_.
in "The Complete Lyrics of Noel Coward"
Faber
rec. in CD "The Noel Coward Album" Live
in Las Vegas, 1955.
_http://www.m-w.com/mw/textonly/wftw/97oct/102997.htm_
(http://www.m-w.com/mw/textonly/wftw/97oct/102997.htm)
spare-rib, turn-of-the-seventeenth-century term
which owes its existence to folk etymology.
Of course spareribs are neither lean nor superfluous, they just
sound that way. Actually, the English "sparerib" (a cut of pork separated
from the bacon strip) was cooked up from "ribbesper",
a Low German term for pickled pork ribs roasted on a spit."
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