[Sca-cooks] Re: Wheatabix

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

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

Hey, I'm all for people being funny. It's an easy assumption to make, 
but let's just say I'm more likely to hang out with Arthur than with 
Julius Caesar, is all. I get to wear pants, too!

A.

>
>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.
>>
>
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