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A simple question....
If the middle of your body is your midriff, is the whole of your body your riff? Why?
(Started wondering about this when I saw a women's clothing advert on TV this morning...)
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Well, Stales,
Per my trusty, never dusty Webster's:
midriff (noun) 1. The diaphragm. 2. The part of the body between the chest and the abdomen.
from OE midd(mid) + hrif(belly)
Sounds reduntant to me!
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A riff is a guitar lick. Does that help ya out?  CapK knows of which I speak
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I know someone what calls their spare tyres midriff and midraff.
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As a male ages and his youthful, manly chest is replaced by a spare tire at a somewhat lower level (that is as his profile changes from a P shape to a b shape), is that process called mid-drift? 
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that is as his profile changes from a P shape to a b shape
Is that P for Prime and b for beer?
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...manly chest is replaced by a spare tire at a somewhat lower level..
I remember my Dad, 75 yrs old and a Cockney, having a little rhyme for this process....
When a person to the age of 40 doth come,
for a man it goes to his waist.
To a woman, her bum.
or words to that effect. I'd be interested if anybody has heard the correct quote and/or can attribute it.
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And this is only a bit of whimsy:
A woman with child has a midrife.
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Bit of trivia from MSN home page :
Which star had her belly button removed?
The correct answer: B. Cindy Crawford
Well, not really removed. In the July 1998 issue of Elle magazine, Crawford’s navel was air-brushed out of a swimsuit spread when editors felt it “clashed” with the $300 bikini she was modeling. So it wasn’t a real nip-and-tuck.
A woman with child has a midrife.
Does this have anything to do with a midrife crisis?
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midrife crisis = MORNING SICKNESS ALL THE TIME EVERY HOUR OF THE DAY AND NIGHT
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