Who is Macaroni?

Auganaut wrote:
Oh boy, a Lisa wants/gets a pony show. :?

Anyways. I don't know if any of you have ever seen the show "Assume the position" with Robert Wuhl, he talks about history and some of the lesser know "facts" about it. Here is what he had to say about the Yankee Doodle song.

The U.S. patriotic song "Yankee Doodle" as an example from the American Revolution. "Yankee Doodle," Wuhl said, was actually a British song mocking what they saw as disheveled, disorganized American colonial soldiers -- but the colonists didn't realize they were being made fun of ("Doodle" meant "simpleton") and proudly adopted the song because they liked the tune. Indeed, the line "He stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni" was a reference to excessively dressed effeminate 18th century British men who spoke with outlandish, epicene affectations and were derided in England as macaronis, Wuhl said. The song's meaning, he said, was that the simple colonists were so foolish that they didn't even know how to become macaronis -- all they did was stick a feather in their cap!