Lazy Susan

[StaticCling]

In reference to Jeff's post regarding his Welding contraption, DAB mentioned something about a "Lazy Susan".

Now, as most of you know, I am a thinking man. I ponder things, and sometimes those things keep me up at night.

So with diligent research, hard work, and an enquiring mind, I set out to find an answer. My efforts led me directly to Google, and then Wikipedia. There is a rather substantial article on the subject here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_Susan

Within the confines of this informative article, it indicates that the origin of the term 'Lazy Susan', and who exactly this Susan person was, has been lost to history.

So therein lies the question my friends...

Who was this Susan? And how lazy was she? Does the adjective 'lazy' imply that all Susan's are lazy? I knew a Susan once, she was quite hard working.

Help.

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[Craig]

I've got nuthin'...:leaving:

[lspencer534]

The earliest use of “Lazy Susan” as a term for a rotating serving tray found so far is in Good Housekeeping magazine in 1906 (“A ‘Lazy Susan’ from the days of the Massachusetts colony,” vol. 43, page 249). The origin of the term is a mystery, but there are two somewhat plausible theories. The first is that “Susan” was, at some point, considered a common name of female servants. Thus an inanimate device that took the place of a serving maid might be called a “Lazy Susan” because it served, but entirely in a passive or “lazy” sense. Unfortunately, by the beginning of the 20th century, when the term first appeared, household servants were far less common than they once had been, and thus were unlikely to inspire this sort of sardonic tribute. There’s also no evidence that “Susan” was considered a typical maid’s name.

A more intriguing possibility suggests that the “Susan” in “Lazy Susan” was inspired by the flower known as a “Black-eyed Susan” (Rudbeckia hirta, aka “Yellow Daisy”), whose circular blooms consist of yellow “rays” surrounding a dark brown center. The flower apparently took its name from the poem “Black-Eyed Susan” by English poet and dramatist John Gay (1685-1732), in which a sailor bids fond and extended adieu to his love Susan, who is called “black-eyed Susan” in the first stanza. The popularity of the Black-eyed Susan flower, and the resemblance of a circular serving tray to the circular bloom of the flower, may well have given us the “Lazy Susan.”

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[Ol Timer]

Susan was known as lazy due to her lack of movement during, um, intimate engagements. She was popular due to her "approachibility", but the nickname, lazy Susan was bestowed.

Then she learned the spin move and her life changed. Everyone wanted her, but alas, the name stuck.

In honor of her spinning trick on a kitchen table, the popular device was so named.

[69camfrk]

Susan was known as lazy due to her lack of movement during, um, intimate engagements. She was popular due to her "approachibility", but the nickname, lazy Susan was bestowed.

Then she learned the spin move and her life changed. Everyone wanted her, but alas, the name stuck.

In honor of her spinning trick on a kitchen table, the popular device was so named.

That is what I like about this place, always a scholar on here somewhere!!!:D:leaving:And oh....:lol: