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Welcome to the forums Bill! I know that you will be a wonderful addition, and we're glad to have you here.

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Zio benvenuto Bill! Sono molto felice di vederli qui. Ora non sarete mai fuori
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Thanks, Sis:

I'm happy to be here.

For those who don't know DC and I share a common heritage -- but her Italian is much better than mine.

Bill

[This message has been edited by Bill Martino (edited 07 March 1999).]
 
Hey Bill, what does Bafangulo mean. I always hear this on the God Father, but never understood it's meaning.
 
Hmmmm...
How do I do this?
OK Cobalt...imagine meeting an Italian immigrant who lives in say Vermont. You ask him where he lives; he sez

"Uppa US"
 
Oh, so like "up yours"? Well, thats not so bad a word. Maybe it sounds much worse in italian or means much worse, huh.
 
I guess it's a little worse, Cobalt. As you know off the net I swear like an old sailor because I am one. John Powell once asked me for a sampling but being an old Navy man himself when he learned I was a tin can sailor he backed off, fearing I would burn up his system with #*<#@~!

Bill
 
Bafangulo? It sounds more like Vaffanculo.

Maybe it's 'Va a culo'? The not quite polite way to say you disagree with someone. A.k.a. 'agrumentum ad hominem' in Latin.

ZoxX,
the proud kukri-owner, and future khukuri-owner too (according to my wife).
 
You're welcome Bill.

However, I'm from Croatia and someone who is native speaker shoud know the best.

My wife, Nastasja (remember her from the other forum), is very eager to buy one of your khukuries, as soon as she find someone to smuggle it from USA.
:-)

ZoxX
 
Yes, I do remember Nastasja. We do not get many female visitors so I don't usually forget them.

Welcome, and give N. my best. And please don't talk about smuggling! We have enough problems with customs throughout the world as it is.

Bill
 
Just kidding. Thus :-).
Of course I'll be glad to pay custom fees to protect local croatian kamis. It's just 15%.
And VAT of 22%. And opening and closing of the parcel.
I never sm***ed anything.

ZoxX
 
Hi Zoxx:

I knew you were kidding and so was I. Actually, we have had pretty good luck with customs but they sometimes can get a little crazy.

Bill
 
Zoxx is correct about the spelling (V not B),however, the spoken pronunciation of many "V" words in Latin, Italian and Spanish is "B". As Cobalt got it from the movie Godfather....he heard it as Ba fan culo. Certain Sicilian dialects pronounce it as "Ba fon'ghule"

My people came from the Sicilian towns of Montreale and Castelvetrano....the village of Coreleone is between them. Francis F Coppola and Mario Puzo are as well Sicilian desent....since the "Godfather" is the story of Sicilian immigrants, Cobalt heard it as it was meant to be heard.

I liked the cookbook Bill
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[This message has been edited by DC (edited 08 March 1999).]
 
Hi Sis:

You are both right -- what you hear and what you spell are often two different things.

Zoxx has a beautiful and interesting wife who posts as Nastasja. I wish she would come back to visit us. I enjoy the female companionship.

Glad you liked to cookbook -- problem is most of the old time recipes have been corrupted by grandkids like me.

Bill
 
Thanx DC, my Italian comes more from Dante, than from dialects. Anyway, is it 'Va a culo'?

ED E SUBITO SERA
Ognuno sta solo sul cuor della terra
trafitto da un raggio di sole:
ed e' subito sera.

AND THEN SUDDENLY IT'S EVENING
Alone at the earth's core stands each man,
Pierced by a ray of light; and then
Suddenly it's evening.

(Salvatore Quasimodo)

ZoxX
 
Zoxx...
Yes, in classic, proper Italian ( around Rome, Milano, etc) it is "Va a culo".

Go to Calabria and Sicilia and all bets are off.
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Say it to a stranger in anger in Roma or Milano and at worst you may get a pop in the nose. Say it to a stranger in anger in Siciliy and you may get you throat slit where you stand (obligatory knife content
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