Dinner Conversation Last Night

[porphyry]

"If you keep cramming food in your mouth like that, people will think you are a Sarmatian or Gepid!

"If we took you to a resturuant, people would stare and say, "My God! That child must be an Avar!'"


"Now what will you do with so much butter on your fingers? Smear it in your hair like a Lomabrd?"

It did not seem to amuse anyone except me.

Comments

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

So long as you look Lombard isntead of what I type (you see why Mde. Malkhos has to do all my proof reading).

To save you some trouble they are all Barbarian tribes that attacked the Roman Empire in Late Antiquity, variously Dacio-Iranian, Hunnic, or Germanic.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

If you ever have an overwhelming desire to live in St. Louis, I'm sure Malkhos would be delighted to have interesting, cultured people to parent :) And perhaps we could talk him into more cats.

[stefanie-bean.livejournal.com]

A Caucasian or a Eurasian Avar?

(I'm just being a smart-ass; I had to look it up...)

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Malkhos is always amusing himself with his cleverness even if it's at the children's expense. I always find myself saying things like, "These children have no idea what you're talking about" although A., the elder child, tends to emulate Malkhos's diction. It is rather amusing to hear a four-year-old talk like an old man.