In a message dated 6/26/00 9:56:39 AM, [log in to unmask] writes:

<< While we're on the topic, why was sticking a feather in his cap called
macaroni?
 >>

Guess that's all they could come up with to rhyme with pony......It could
have been Rice-a-Roni, had it been later in time.  :-))