wonderfully bizarre concept...i dug it

Azza dey say inna da old a country dis is da "pasta e fagioli:". It-a also gotta "polenta' of a good a lines. I'm a like! Dis a be molto bene. Esp. liked the "break a you face" ref. Classic hot head Italian. Cinque punti. Grazie e ciao.

Thanks, alvin and Guy. In Burbank you hear a lot of Italian accents. Now I'm not making this up,but I think I read this The Reader's Digest. In Daly City, CA somebody saw a car with a bumper sticker that said, "You touch -a my car - I break -a you face!". Inside the car were two nuns in full habit.

Eh! Oh! Oh! Eh! Issa very funny, dis, bud I t'ink mebbe it dissa me, eh? Ass' OK .. I'm-a like it still, so 'eersa buncha fifes f' you. :-)

Re that "You touch-a my car ..." bumper sticker -- my favorite Otalian deli here -- where I go to practice my real (not gangster-speak) Italian offers a whole range of "You touch-a my ..." stickers and other merchandise. Funny, as ancient old "Mamma" is deathly serious about two things: her Italian-ness and her Catholicism. Go in there on a thundery-lightningy day and you're likely to get sprinkled with holy water. :-)

Hey 2 - those nuns got some nasty habits. I grew up in a town in an eastern state where the generation of my parents' parents were all from somewhere in Europe. The street I lived on was 100% Italian. English was not spoken very much on that street by the old timers. My grandmother lived about 5 houses away and spoke to me from the time I was born until around the age of 5 years when she passed away and I cannot ever remember her speaking any English to me so accents?

I grew up hearing almost every European accent you can think of from Italian to Czech to Polish to Russian to Croatian to Hungarian to you name it - they came from anywhere that had hard times to make a better life for themselves and their children in the US. And what Stan says and he has told me in emails about that Italian lady that ran that store - she would dump holy water on me at about 212 degrees if she ever saw my "Nuns'll Getcha" and "Unda Da See" parodies. So maka all a da fun a you wan about a the Italians - I no break-a you face for it because I maka fun of a dem too.

Hey there, Mr Trafficante, I agree that diamonds are indeed a "Girl's Best Friend", sir ! ~MM

Mamma mia! Mangia, mangia.

HEY-E, OVAH 'EAH, HUH? Youz makin wit da funease aboud breakin facez? I busticated a guyz faze so bad wuntz dat he cudent eeven ged metical atenshun. I hid em so hawd dat he stahved ta deadth rollin'. Da ambewlance hadta git filt up tree timez wid gast jus chasin afder em. Da metical examinder lisded da cawse a deadth az stahvashun. Bud serisly - youz gotz owah innerst peek-ed wit da rockz an da dimends. I wud like ta set up a "take a walk" wit my secatarie ov da fence, Louie "Da Bag" DiGriese-Palma fowah peece a da akshun. Hez gonna discust wut "points" wez needz on da "swag" - so youz gotz dat 2-boid? Wez iz makin an offah dat youze cand refuge. Expekt a visid frum owah esteamed associade in da neah fudure. 2-LOUD OUTTA 'EAH!

An Italian Peanuts, now there's an idea...fun stuff

. . . . . Square cut or Pear shaped, these 'rocks' won't lose their shape! Diamonds are a girl's Best Friend, yeah, I don't mean rhineStones! !

Thanks, Stan, Guy, DD, CPH, CB, AFW and Diva. It is not that Peanuts is Italian here. I got the idea from an old Stan Freberg record entitled Nuttin' for Christmas about a boy who wasn't getting any presents because he had been naughty all year. At the end a burglar breaks into the house and he thinks it's Santa.

I missed this one, among the great run of "I Am a Rock" Halloween parodies of November 2008. I find this one weird. Maybe I'll come back and rate it later? Is there some connection between pumpkins and The Godfather that I don't know about? Oh, I see 2Eagle's explanation just above. Hmm...