This exchange from Mafia! comes to mind:
Anthony Cortino: Gianini... any Sicilian in you?
Pepper Gianini: Not since last night.
pj
--- On Mon, 9/28/09, Tom Martin <dreamfact...@hollywooddreamfactory.com> wrote:
From: Tom Martin <dreamfact...@hollywooddreamfactory.com>
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Question re: a Package Returned from Italy
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Date: Monday, September 28, 2009, 6:05 PM
by the way Folks My dads name is Thomas Marotta. from new York..... and My exs
family on moms side is sicilian
and lives in Howard beach new YORK and they own a Funeral parlor.....
and she was from Detroit originally.. ..
plus my moms granmother was named Filamina from Italy...
so I have quite a bit of Italian Blood on both sides....... like it or not....
Plus some scottish and portugeses...
Greg wrote:
> My buddy Guido read Tom's note to Channing and muttered, "Che cosa un
> bastardo! Tom Martin letto con i pesci !", just before he called an associate
> in Toledo.
> Anyone heard from Tommy-boy recently?
> Greg Douglass
> Tom Martin wrote:certainly Channing I can answer this one.. since I speak 20
> languages fluently and am a part time interpeter for the UN and others...
> Mulmar used me as a back -up recently....
>
>>
>> anyways to cut to the Chase .. what the Italians are saying... in the NON
>> amesso statement was....
>>
>> " sir your package was a mess !!! we are returning it to You .. NO messes
>> allowed..
>> they also said " How dare you senda us a messa like a dis You yankee dog.."
>> they went on to say.." This a boxa looks like someone had a big spicy
>> meataball fly outta their Moutha
>> onto da package" ... then they gave the international Italian sign for up
>> yith the arm fist jesture..
>>
>> I may be off by a few letters since my spelling ainta so Good in the
>> translation..
>>
>> hope that helps Channing..
>>
>> International interpepter- Tom
>>
>> channinglylethomson wrote:
>>
>>> Perhaps someone on MOPO could explain what the phrase NON AMMESSO means.
>>> I sent a book to Italy by Priority mail a few months back. The client
>>> said they'd never received it and filed a claim with Paypal saying
>>> non-receipt. I just got the package back today with a pink sticker on it
>>> that said RETOUR (RINVIO). Checked below that box it was marked NON
>>> AMMESSO. Does anyone know what happened to this package from what I'm
>>> describing? Or what that phrase would mean in this situation? Any help
>>> would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Channing Thomson
>>>
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