in about 647 B.C. the astrogoths began cooking fish heads with dried peppers and goatcheese... you can find the recipe at who givesaflying.com well, the franks would give them a little flack, calling them (among other things) prailers, ungrs, and nothbligs, and so the practice of cooking fish heads became known as "nothing"
when the astrogoths had there annual "Kalakidoo" festival, in which they would cook up all the fish heads they had collected over the traclikar season, the franks would mock them with their "woop de doo" carnival.
there you go. much to do over nothing.
