[UA] "Sweetie Pie"

[Timothy Toner]

Greg Stolze wrote:
> I invoke the unsurpassed symbol mangling and splicing power of the UA 
> list!  What do y'all make of the name "Sweetie Pie"?  I'm specifically 
> hoping for a mythological name that, when overheard by the ignorant, 
> might sound like "Sweetie Pie".  Or something. 

Ugh!  This one isn't close, but it's too creepy to pass up.  I was 
perusing Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, to see what it says on 
the matter, and I came to the entry on 'sweet,' meaning insignificant or 
worthless, most commonly seen in the phrase SFA for 'sweet fuck-all'.  
But that's not what SFA stands for.  It seems that in 1867, eight year 
old Fanny Adams is raped and murdered in a hop garden in Alton, 
Hampshire, and her body dismembered.  Frederick Baker, a 21 year old 
solicitor's clerk, was soon found, convicted, and hanged.  Then the 
Royal Navy, well known for their tact, took to naming the recently 
released and much reviled tinned mutton "Sweet Fanny Adams," and thus a 
phrase is born. 

Much more detail on the story found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Adams

tt


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