>>>When Andy was telling Opie the story of "Jack The Giant Killer", he was >>>quoting the Giant when he said, "Fee fie foe fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman. Be he 'live, or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to eat my bones!"
I don't think you heard it quite right, the last part is "to eat with my pone." Pone is a sort of cornbread; this was Andy's way of "Southern-izing" the story. Digression alert: The original verse (as I've always heard it) was "I"ll grind his bones to make my bread." The gruesome notion of adding ground-up human bones to bread dough allegedly dates back to 1590, when Paris was under seige and running out of food. Many nursery rhymes are said to be loosely based on events from medieval history. --Paul Mulik _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wbmutbb.com/mailman/listinfo/wbmutbb_wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
