Re: Folk sayings about fat being good for you

[Guest guest]

" Fat city "

- C

> Does anyone remember any of those old folk saying about how fat is

> good for you? I can think of:

>

> Live from the fat of the land

> The cream rises to the top

> The cream of the crop

> sickly as skimmed milk

> fallen on lean times

>

> I'm trying to remember others. Does anyone know any?

>

>

[Guest guest]

And don't forget - Phat!

> > Does anyone remember any of those old folk saying about how fat

is

> > good for you? I can think of:

> >

> > Live from the fat of the land

> > The cream rises to the top

> > The cream of the crop

> > sickly as skimmed milk

> > fallen on lean times

> >

> > I'm trying to remember others. Does anyone know any?

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

I can't think of any right now, but I'd be happy to " Chew the Fat " with you

any time. :-)

At 04:26 AM 3/18/02 -0000, you wrote:

> " Fat city "

>>

>> Live from the fat of the land

>> The cream rises to the top

>> The cream of the crop

>> sickly as skimmed milk

>> fallen on lean times

>>

>> I'm trying to remember others. Does anyone know any?

[Guest guest]

> And don't forget - Phat!

Hey, I never thought of that. I just looked it up and got:

ADJECTIVE: Inflected forms: phat·ter, phat·test

Slang Excellent; first-rate: phat fashion; a phat rapper.

ETYMOLOGY: Earlier, sexy (said of a woman), of unknown origin.

I think that's really interesting, because at least stereotypically,

the black culture values fatty food and curvy women more than white

culture. So they're still coining phrases like phat. Pretty soon Dr.

Ornish will give us 'living in anorexic city!'

[Guest guest]

This isn't folk but the Lakota word for the white man is wasichu. It

translates

to taker of the fat. Story goes that the first white man encountered was

caught

taking fat from an encampment. He knew it was good.

If anyone has seen the movie Thunderheart a scene in it is where Val Kilmer

tells the main woman character in the movie that his Dad called him waschi

(sp?). She laughs and says he must have been a chubby boy.

Wanita

At 03:37 AM 3/18/02 +0000, you wrote:

>Does anyone remember any of those old folk saying about how fat is

>good for you? I can think of:

>

>

[Guest guest]

How about " fat and sassy " ? As contrasted, of course, with " lean and

mean. "

And I don't know where the others come from, but " fat of the land " is

straight out of Genesis.

~ Carma ~

To be perpetually talking sense runs out the mind, as perpetually

ploughing and taking crops runs out the land. The mind must be manured,

and nonsense is very good for the purpose. ~ Boswell

Carma's Corner: http://www.users.qwest.net/~carmapaden/

[Guest guest]

" Phat " stands for " pretty hot and tempting " . My rap-fan friend says " that is

attested from as far back as 1987 by LL Kool J himself...we researched this

at Chadwyck-Healy " (musical abstracting service he used to work for).

He adds, " Mr. J does not claim to have started it but one song of his is its

first attestation...

it does seem to be a joke on the white/black differences of opinions on

attractive levels of body fat, though. "

Jill Nienhiser

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From: justinbond [mailto:justin_bond@...]

Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 12:24 AM

Subject: Re: Folk sayings about fat being good for

you

> And don't forget - Phat!

Hey, I never thought of that. I just looked it up and got:

ADJECTIVE: Inflected forms: phat·ter, phat·test

Slang Excellent; first-rate: phat fashion; a phat rapper.

ETYMOLOGY: Earlier, sexy (said of a woman), of unknown origin.

I think that's really interesting, because at least stereotypically,

the black culture values fatty food and curvy women more than white

culture. So they're still coining phrases like phat. Pretty soon Dr.

Ornish will give us 'living in anorexic city!'