Last night

So, last night I made an exception to my self-imposed ban on going to the bar that kicked me out because a friend of mine came to visit from South Carolina and I didn't want to bore him with all the crap of what, when, why. On the side, I ran into two Russian and an Irish grad student at the bar. New things that I found out:

1 - Pushkin Square in Moscow is a great spot to rendezvous with your dates.
2 - Dubh in Irish is pronounced as Dove which means Black.
3 - Russians have three names: first, middle and last. The middle name is father's name that ends with 'vich'. For example, Mikhail's son will bear the second name as Mikhailivich.
4 - Pushkin was half black because his folks came from South Africa. He had curly hair, supposedly a dead giveaway of having mixed blood in Russia.
5 - Bodolov is a good contemporary russian novelist.
6 - Russia routinely has ups and downs every hundred years or so.
7 - Irish have a particular name for their language which I forgot.
8 - 'Langer' is penis in Russian (or was it Celtic?) where in Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu it's the food that's cooked in the Temple or Gurdwara's kitchen.
9 - Absurdistan could be an alternate name for Russia although I thought it suited Pakistan better. I am definitely going to read the book within next six months.
10 - A Russian is well-entitled at the bar to order a son of James when he actually wants a shot of Jameson. That shot made me throw up in the kitchen sink later that night.