Remember when i told you about that weird celebrity dinner I did a week ago, where the topics revolved mostly around the guests and didn't go much deeper or further.
Well, last night, I had a dinner with Michele, Chris and Sylvia (all in photos on this blog) and their boyfriends and had the most hard-hitting conversation. About Scott Peterson (concensus: guilty or not, there was not enough evidence to convict). And we talked about all kinds of legal mishaps in the 20 years or so the dinner guests had been following these high-profile cases.
A fish dinner, but a meaty converation.
However, I gotta gloat. Sean, Chris' boyfriend, tried to claim to me that the term "salad days" referred to a time in one's life then they were doing so well that he had salad at the end of the dinner, as the upper classes often do.
I thought -- I felt sure -- that it was a reference to youth. I'd used it in columns before, at least, and no editor had dinged me for it.
Well, I win. Proof below. Comments welcome.
Salad Days
This term was coined in 1606 by Shakespeare, Antony & Cleopatra, I.v.73:
Sallad dayes, When I was greene in judgement, cold in blood.
It is a reference to youth, green and fresh.
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