istanbul or constantinople

some impish fun for the remarkably foolish

Last night a neighbour was visiting.

She told us that he son was traveling. He was in Turkey.

I asked here where.

She said ‘Istanbul’

I replied with ‘not Constantinople?’

She said, ‘No, Istanbul,’

Me: ‘Not Constantinople?’

By now, she didn’t get what I was doing.

Laura did.

She was sitting in the next room, mouth gaping, eyes wide, vigorously nodding encouragement.

I continued: “Even old New York was once New Amsterdam”

Still clueless, she replied: “Really”

Me: “Why they changed it, I can’t say”

The next part blew me away. Completely without prompting and utterly unaware, she finished the lyric: “I guess people like it better that way.”

Laura, listening from the other room was barely keeping quite. Her fist pumps and head nodding had energy rivaling that at an AC/DC concert.

I’m not sure what psychographic line I was crossing - Gen x vs boomer? Maybe weirdo theatre geek vs non weirdo theatre geek? I dunno. Together we had a conversation where my side of the conversation was prewritten by ‘They Might…