Only the sane are mad!
So the other night, at Mike's request I joined him for a jaunt to an Iranian restaurant in town for a romantic meal for two. Something we have not done of late. Sadly alas alack it was not that romantic, this was mostly due to me opening my mouth without thinking.
We had only just started walking up the road when I made my first remarkably stupid comment! It was never going to get any better you could just tell.
"Iranian! I'm quite excited!"
"Yes, although I noticed someone on the website likened it 'Persian'"
"No, they likened it to Persian and Greek food, probably because you don't get that many Iranian restaurants"
"That's my point my dear, Iran is the modern day Persia, it IS where Persia used to be, so it IS Persian, not 'like' Persian"
"ah!"
The food was delicious and only slightly spoilt by my lack of knowledge in one form or another:
"So is Latin what the Greek's spoke?"
An incredulous look of disbelief crossed Mike's face
"I mean" I said hurridly "Did they speak Latin, is it the same as Greek language?"
"No!"
"Oh"
"They don't even look similar"
"Well I've never seen it written...alright" I said changing tactics and realising that coming from a family of horticulturalists where everything is written in Latin this wasn't entirely true "I haven't seen it written for a long time."
"That's better"
"But they were around at the same time as the Roman's weren't they? The Greeks and Romans existed at the same time, I mean, I know Greeks still exist but..." I trailed off
"Yes darling they did exist at the same time, but they spoke different languages and wrote differently. Greek is entirely different to Latin"
"Right" I puzzled over this for a bit whilst munching on my humungous plate of food "What I don't get" I started "is that everything is measured around Christ. BC and AD. Were the roman's around before or after Christ? And how can anything before Christ be measured?"
"Darling the Romans were around Before and After christ, and what the hell do you mean about anything before being measured?"
"Well" I took a deep breath "Ok, so I get that after Christ it's AD, and we are now 2006AD, BUT, what I don't get is measuring before, I mean you can't say that 0AD was however many years before Christ because we aren't sure how old the earth is."
Mike took a deep breath "Ok" He said slowly "Christ is 0, you work back and forth from that, so before AD goes on to infinity or at least when the earth was created, after Christ, or AD is still happening, and going on until infinity or until the earth ceases to be"
I frowned "ri-ight"
"Look" Mike used the edge of the table in his demonstration and pointing to roughly near the middle he said "Christ is born. Anything this side" he pointed towards me "is BC, before Christ, however, anything this side" he gestured to his half "is AD. So here you have 308 BC: Rome conquers the Etruscan city of Tarquinia" he moved his hand further towards the centre "and here you have 149 BC: Rome destroys Carthage, then Christ is born, then 452: the Huns invade Italy and so on up to the present day"
"Oooh I see, I get it" I exclaimed
Mike heaved a sigh of relief "2006: Ali asks silly questions in a restaurant" He grinned at me.
Despite not having any alcohol (the restaurant is strictly non-alcoholic, not even BYOB) I felt as high as a kite, and extremely full on the way home. Walking down the Hagley Road I started singing and humming to myself.
"That was a good choice Minnie, I enjoyed it" Mike smiled at me
I grinned back "it was wasn't it? Hurrah for Minnie!"
I then took it a little too far, it might have been the satisfyingly full feeling, it might have been the relief at getting out of the house for a night, it might just have been spending quality time with the person I love most in this world, but something prompted me to go over the edge and sing, aloud, quite loudly:
"Minnnnnniiiieeee mininimininini" I varied the pitch "Oh mininininin mini mini miiiiiiiiiiiiini"
I giggled hysterically whilst holding Mike's hand as we approached someone walking towards us
"sssssh now" mike warned
What happened as we passed him was we heard a lot of muttering as he attempted to rap along to the music he was listening to. Both Mike and I giggled uncontrollably and between giggles I managed to squeal "nothing to worry about, he was having a sing song too!"
"Yes, it's like we've all been let out of the lunatic asylum for the day, perhaps he and his imaginary friend could join us for dinner next time!"
We had only just started walking up the road when I made my first remarkably stupid comment! It was never going to get any better you could just tell.
"Iranian! I'm quite excited!"
"Yes, although I noticed someone on the website likened it 'Persian'"
"No, they likened it to Persian and Greek food, probably because you don't get that many Iranian restaurants"
"That's my point my dear, Iran is the modern day Persia, it IS where Persia used to be, so it IS Persian, not 'like' Persian"
"ah!"
The food was delicious and only slightly spoilt by my lack of knowledge in one form or another:
"So is Latin what the Greek's spoke?"
An incredulous look of disbelief crossed Mike's face
"I mean" I said hurridly "Did they speak Latin, is it the same as Greek language?"
"No!"
"Oh"
"They don't even look similar"
"Well I've never seen it written...alright" I said changing tactics and realising that coming from a family of horticulturalists where everything is written in Latin this wasn't entirely true "I haven't seen it written for a long time."
"That's better"
"But they were around at the same time as the Roman's weren't they? The Greeks and Romans existed at the same time, I mean, I know Greeks still exist but..." I trailed off
"Yes darling they did exist at the same time, but they spoke different languages and wrote differently. Greek is entirely different to Latin"
"Right" I puzzled over this for a bit whilst munching on my humungous plate of food "What I don't get" I started "is that everything is measured around Christ. BC and AD. Were the roman's around before or after Christ? And how can anything before Christ be measured?"
"Darling the Romans were around Before and After christ, and what the hell do you mean about anything before being measured?"
"Well" I took a deep breath "Ok, so I get that after Christ it's AD, and we are now 2006AD, BUT, what I don't get is measuring before, I mean you can't say that 0AD was however many years before Christ because we aren't sure how old the earth is."
Mike took a deep breath "Ok" He said slowly "Christ is 0, you work back and forth from that, so before AD goes on to infinity or at least when the earth was created, after Christ, or AD is still happening, and going on until infinity or until the earth ceases to be"
I frowned "ri-ight"
"Look" Mike used the edge of the table in his demonstration and pointing to roughly near the middle he said "Christ is born. Anything this side" he pointed towards me "is BC, before Christ, however, anything this side" he gestured to his half "is AD. So here you have 308 BC: Rome conquers the Etruscan city of Tarquinia" he moved his hand further towards the centre "and here you have 149 BC: Rome destroys Carthage, then Christ is born, then 452: the Huns invade Italy and so on up to the present day"
"Oooh I see, I get it" I exclaimed
Mike heaved a sigh of relief "2006: Ali asks silly questions in a restaurant" He grinned at me.
Despite not having any alcohol (the restaurant is strictly non-alcoholic, not even BYOB) I felt as high as a kite, and extremely full on the way home. Walking down the Hagley Road I started singing and humming to myself.
"That was a good choice Minnie, I enjoyed it" Mike smiled at me
I grinned back "it was wasn't it? Hurrah for Minnie!"
I then took it a little too far, it might have been the satisfyingly full feeling, it might have been the relief at getting out of the house for a night, it might just have been spending quality time with the person I love most in this world, but something prompted me to go over the edge and sing, aloud, quite loudly:
"Minnnnnniiiieeee mininimininini" I varied the pitch "Oh mininininin mini mini miiiiiiiiiiiiini"
I giggled hysterically whilst holding Mike's hand as we approached someone walking towards us
"sssssh now" mike warned
What happened as we passed him was we heard a lot of muttering as he attempted to rap along to the music he was listening to. Both Mike and I giggled uncontrollably and between giggles I managed to squeal "nothing to worry about, he was having a sing song too!"
"Yes, it's like we've all been let out of the lunatic asylum for the day, perhaps he and his imaginary friend could join us for dinner next time!"
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