Posted on 12/30/2021 8:33:10 PM PST by nickcarraway
For Italians you are not really married unless the Ave Maria is sung at your wedding and you are not really dead unless it is sung at your funeral. When you are at a funeral mass and you hear the beautiful opening bars of that melody, its time to say your final goodbyes.
The Catholics, Muslims, cults, whatever aren’t the problem. The atheists and leftists are the problems.
Merry Christmas!
even to the Mr Potters of the world. And some of you are him, harrrumph.
Heeyyyyyy, not all of us are Anus circles.
E Buon Anno, too.
Italian lives matter! Who else is going to make the sauce.
“Who-a elsa izgonna ma -keda sauce-a?”
I can hear my friend “Chollie” Di…….. askin’.
Summa youse guys gimme da agida.
Here’s an old joke.
For a time people were really in to Vegas shows. They were bragging about “Oh. I just caught FS ( Frank Sinatra )” or “I just caught DM ( Dean Martin ) in Vegas.” But nobody brags about catching Vic Damone.
I’ve never seen that movie. I grew up in an Italian household. I’m first generation American :)
“Had the US been founded by Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese, or the French it would be a very very different place.”
It’d be like Brazil or Mexico or other South American countries.
“Italian lives matter! Who else is going to make the sauce.”
Mangea. At sa spicy meat ball-a.
So, to you the United States is just like Canada, New Zealand, or the U.K.? I think not.
“So, to you the United States is just like Canada, New Zealand, or the U.K.?”
No.
No idea why you’d think that.
Weird.
Back to Capra.
He was quite a genius. He got a Chemical Engineering degree from CalTech.
He made his great entertainment movies. And he made the sublime Why We Fight series of WWII documentaries. And he capped it off by making a series of fantastic science education films in the late 50’s/early 60’s.
What a pleasure to see my Heritage celebrated on this New Year’s Eve.
Thank you Nick, for reminding me of the wonderful days when my Italian Family was ecstatic about having made it to this wonderful Country.
The entire Family would meet on a Friday night and just share, enjoy and EAT our way through any troubles.
And we never forgot the cannolis.
And, I, as the Baby would go to my room.
Many of them have gone, but the memories are what gets me through the problems of today.
Capra came from SICILY.
A distinction that many Italian Americans find very important.
The difference is like coming from Berkeley or Hillsdale.
Yep. The Italian Way is not necessarily the best way.
The leftists do not understand the obvious differences of the European tribes. And there are many.
Very true. Tuscany would not even talk to Sicilians
I am from 9 different nationalities. The one that dominated was Italian. The language, the food, the stories. To this day my warmest memories relate to my aunts and uncles who shared this with me. They are all long gone. I miss it all.
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