[Sca-cooks] Re: Wheatabix

[Sue Clemenger]

Oh.  My apologies.  I figured you were of other derivation, given the 
name and all.
--maire, who thought she was being funny....

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

> 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.
>