posted by Mike Madison at 12:55 PM /
Over in McKeesport, Jason is doing a nice thing and driving a little blog traffic our way.
But do we really need to keep up the whole Caketown thing?
But do we really need to keep up the whole Caketown thing?
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I think the last person who used the term "Caketown" with any regularity was wearing spats and a raccoon coat, strumming a ukulele, holding a great big pennant that read STATE U and looking for a speakeasy to get some bathtub gin for him and his Janie.
MFJ...that's great, but what the hell are spats?
:)
Does anybody actually know why Mt. Lebanon is called Caketown?
Spuck should see Some Like It Hot, featuring the great George Raft as the gangster Spats Colombo.
M: I never heard anyone call Mt. Lebanon "Caketown" until I read it on this blog, but for decades the citizenry of Mt. Lebo have been called "cake eaters" a reference to Marie Antoinette's famous remark of socioeconomic indifference: "Let them eat cake."
No, I don't think it's a Marie Antoinette reference. I believe it dates back to the 1920s or '30s, when "cake-eater" was slang for poufy, effete upperclass kids with nothing to do but go to socials and eat cake.
http://www.pbs.org/speak/words/trackthatword/ttw/?i=847
We always referred to ourselves as "cake-eaters."
I mean it is in the high school fight song:
"We eat more cake than all of the rest..."
no one has described what spats are yet. Anyone? :)
mjf,
Mt Lebanon is hardly "upper-class". Upper Manhattan around Central Park is "upper-class". Mt Lebanon is just a dumb suburb.
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