[Sca-cooks] Whey

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Martin G. Diehl:
>(2) Also found in the Kingdom of the East, Crown Province
>of Ostgardr -- Canton of Whyt Whey.

Originally the Incipient Canton of the Grate Whyte Whey (thank you, 
Sir Edward Zifran -- would the good people of a proposed Brooklyn 
canton accept my suggestion of the name, Canton of Ebbet's Field? 
Nooooooewwwwww!!!). Once upon a time, it is rumored, the prevailing 
method of spelling the name "Østgarr" was translatable in two ways. 
Depending on which Scandinavian language you assumed it to come from, 
it meant either "Eastern Fortress" (or some such), or "Cheese Farm".

We all got into the habit, when the aroma of political mendacity hit 
the air, of saying, "Leave us out of this: We're only simple cheese 
farmers..."

The Canton of Whyt Whey is, of course, Manhattan Island.

Adamantius

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"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la 
brioche!" / "If they have no bread, you have to say, let them eat 
brioche."
	-- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques 
Rousseau, "Confessions", pub 1782

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