On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 09:19:10AM -0300, luis jure wrote: > el Mon, 28 Jun 2004 21:14:30 -0700 > Jos Laake <jos@xxxxxxxxxx> escribi?: > > I believe it's a reference from the Frank Zappa song "Apostrophe", no? > > From the album of the same name. > > I belive the line goes: > > "The crux of the biscuit is the Apostrophe." - FZ > right. "it should be easy to see..." > > What it means? I have no idea. Random silliness from the Master > > is my guess. ;-) > i don't see it as random. i'm not a native speaker of english, but i think i > can follow how zappa developed a funny variant of the idioms that use the > word"crux" (meaning of course "decisive point", and not "cross"), mainly > "the crux of the matter", but also "the crux of the problem/conflict", "the > crux of the discussion/debate", etc. > > it's very probable that zappa himself invented the expression (can anyone > trace it to a predating source?), perhaps melding "crux of the matter" and > "crust of the biscuit". > > it appeared first in the song "stink foot", which was included in the album > "apostrophe" from 1974. zappa also used the expression in conversation, i > remember reading interviews where he used this peculiar idiom. > > excuse the OT, but the artists and groups usually mentioned on this list are > completely unknown to me, for once i wanted to talk a musician i _do_ know. > er... not very probable an OT about duke ellington or thelonious monk, is > it? Not that the OT needs to go on any longer, but monk is one of my all time favorite composers and performers. :-D If I were to start studying music again I think I would start with monk. -Eric Rz.
