On Tue 24 May 2005 04:26:23a, FREECYCLEMOM wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> "Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Fri 20 May 2005 11:49:14a, FREECYCLEMOM wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>
>>>
>>> "Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> On Fri 20 May 2005 10:15:15a, Graphic Queen wrote in
>>>> rec.food.cooking:
>>>>
>>>>> Maybe all of you should get some education and try reading a book
>>>>> that isn't a cookbook for once in your pathetic lives.
>>>>
>>>> Somerset Maugham said it best... "Good riddance to bad garbage."
>>>>
>>>> --
>>> I thought it was "Good riddance to bad rubbish."
>>
>> I've heard it both ways. I'm confused. I thought Sophie said
>> "garbage" in
>> "The Razor's edge". Mebbe not.
>>
>
> Looks like you were right Wayne!
>
> http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/...zor_notes.html
>
> RAZOR'S EDGE NOTES
>
> She wants to die because there is no reason to live – "Good riddance
> to bad garbage" is her response to a warning from Maugham about where
> her wildness might lead her

Thanks! However, after thinking about it for a while, I realized that I
had also heard "rubbish" used in a popular line. It occurs in Maugham's
"Of Human Bondage". Bette Davis' character, Mildred Rogers, says of Lesie
Howard's character, Philip Carey, "Good riddance to bad rubbish".

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Wayne Boatwright
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