WTF?

[dreamshark]

Not just weird, but curiously specific. What happened in 2312 BC?

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[redbird]

No idea. It's much too late for either the First Dynasty in Egypt or the beginning of the world according to the Hebrew calendar. This also sent me to checking the date that English common law used to define "time immemorial, or time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary," 1189 A.D.

I am amused, not that English law had such a date, but that it was phrased that way, not "1189 AD" or "before the reign of Richard 1." (Wikipedia tells me that in the last couple of centuries, it's more likely to be either X years before whatever event the lawyers are arguing about," and that this is a piece of English common law that the US mostly didn't inherit.

[pameladean]

This is why I like fandom, and one of many reasons I like you. P.

[carbonel]

I learned about that phraseology from a work written by a fan fiction writer (now sadly deceased) who was also (IIRC) a lawyer in the UK. Fandom is educational!

[pameladean]

Invention of the flatbread with stuff on it? (No, I don't have any idea what they're on about, but it's hard not to speculate.)

P.

[pameladean]

I knew that date sounded familiar -- it's the year of comet Hale-Bopp's previous visit to the solar system, not to return til 1997. But I don't know what that has to do with pizza.

P.

[dreamshark]

I'm thinking a small flatbread shop in ancient Babylon. Before the heyday of the Babylonian empire, but Babylon was probably there.

However, that doesn't explain the sailor boy mascot.

[minnehaha]

The cooks at Lake Harriet Pizza call him 'Sailor Ralph,' because cooks are funny people.

As for "the heyday of the Babylonian empire," flex your historical acumen by trying this game: <https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com>. You move the tiles into historical order. Green is correct. Red is incorrect. Three reds and you're out. My record streak is currently 11.

K. [actually I made that up about the cooks, but feel free to propagate it]

[minnehaha]

OK, I now have a high score of 17, based on wildly guessing historic tidbits such as when Artemisia I of Caria was on the throne.