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.

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[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.