[Sca-cooks] Re: Wheatabix

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Sue Clemenger:
>Naw.  Master A is Roman, and they weren't able to, uh, colonize 
>Ireland like so much else of the (then) known world.
>--maire "just a little partisan" ni nuanain

I'm a Briton at the end of the Roman occupation, actually. As for the 
Romans' failure to locate the mouth of the Shannon, I can only say 
necessity is the mother of invention, and there was no necessity, 
apparently. This was never a "Britanien heute, am morgen, die Welt!" 
situation. Whatever it was that the Irish had that the Romans would 
have wanted (and those needs were well-met by Britain for quite a 
while), it wasn't worth a complete redesign of their seafaring 
structure. Hundreds of years later, for the Vikings, and later still, 
the Normans, it was worth it.

<shrug>

A.

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brioche!" / "If they have no bread, you have to say, let them eat 
brioche."
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Rousseau, "Confessions", pub 1782

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