Posted by Ed Mullen on 01/14/08 04:04

Paul wrote:
> "Ed Mullen" <ed@edmullen.net> ha scritto nel messaggio
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>> I just visited Italy (Roma, Firenze and Vezzia) in September. I loved
>> Italy! I even got to meet for the first time my cugina in Fiugni.
>
> Fiuggi

No, I said, and I meant, "Fiugni."

>
> I am glad you haven't visited Napoli, specially in this period.
> It is a shame for those people (and for italians too) that the city is
> really covered with rubbish, streets full of trash, and air contaminated
> with putrescent materials.

I know! I just read about that in the newspaper last week. Horrible.

>> My mother's maiden name was DiMarcantonio.
>
> Marcantonio, as you know, was an ancient important political man who lived
> in Rome about 2000 years ago, so probably this name come from ancient Rome!!

Yes, and loosely, the reference is "the house of Marc Anthony." Or so
I've been told.

>> I am half Italian and half Irish. Which should, to anyone astute enough,
>> explain any strange messages I may have ever posted here. :-)
>
> You may have taken the best from these two people. The important thing is
> that your ancestors weren't from Napoli....:-))

My mother used to use a mild curse: "Ah, Fa Napoli!" Not sure of the
spelling, just phonetically renderered. She also had some other
colorful utterances, some of which I later heard in The Godfather movie
and realized she was a lot saltier lady than I knew!

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