Brutus as in ‘Et tu, Brutus?’?
quite a LONG time after the fall of troy then…
No, another Brutus entirely … read Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain for the details. (You might want to borrow my cell phone if you do that, though.)
ah! I suspected it wouldn’t be the same guy… never heard of this britain-founding Brutus chap…
And did those feet, in ancient time…? 
The stupid thing is, that was the school hymn of the school I went to… in Winnipeg. 
“The Isle Of Main”.
Is that anything like the Spanish Main?
How 'bout the Spanish Backups?
What did you sing for the “England’s green and pleasant land” line? “Canada” doesn’t fit. “In Winnipe-eg’s pleasant land”?
I love the song, though.
With wynn,
Wher werre and wrake and wonder
By sythes have woned therein,
And oft both blisse and blunder
Ful skete have skyfted syn.
(Sorry, that has nothing to do with anything, I just like the fact that I can do it from memory, and Brutus doesn’t get mentioned here every day.)
“In this our green and pleasant land.”
(In January, in Winnipeg. Yes.)
I’m impressed, Fretful Porpentine. I’ve always liked the whole opening, but can never remember past the first line.
Does that mean we can call them all 'West Islanders"?
When we at the U.S. Census Bureau add up the numbers, we count Puerto Rico as well, but we count it separately; we don’t include the count for P.R. when we’re toting up the population of the U.S.A.
What that does to the analogy, I’ll let y’all figure out. Just tossing in a factoid to help out. 
Oh god, Steve Wright, don’t mention Geoffrey! I’m almost done with a Medieval Lit class… The History… was the first book we tackled.