[AsburyPark] Re: Hey Tom, Larry's Got Some Movies For You - Gumba Night
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, dfsavgny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't that slang for girlfiend? The N word is out of that league no coparison. Unless I'm wrong and you know I'm always wrong. Tom Let's go. Be even handed now. I am posting below an excerpt from the email blast Tom Gilmour sends out each week. This should get under your skin, even though they screwed up GOOMBAH with GUMBA. When I saw GUMBA I thought they were showing Forrest Gump. Find out who titled it Gumba Night and let them have it here and everywhere. Your wrath must fall on whoever is responsible, whether its Gilmour, Fishman or whoever. Even if it came originally from Partners, don't you think its irresponsible for the City to be repeating it? If they were showing SHAFT and MANDINGO should it be called that horrible N word Night? Gee, this right after some councilman ruined Columbus Day for us. What's an Italian-American to do? There will probably be riots in Ocean Twp over the weekend. Don;t let the boys from the Sons of Italy see Gilmour's email. The Paramount Theatre presents Gumba Night on Saturday with back- to- back showings of The Godfather and The Godfather II. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[AsburyPark] Re: Hey Tom, Larry's Got Some Movies For You - Gumba Night
From Wikipedia: Goombah (sometimes Goomba) is a slang term regional to the New York area used to describe an Italian-American. It can be mildly derogatory, but not on the same level as dago, guinea or wop. This slang term probably originates from the Italian word compare (or the Sicilian cognate, cumpari, both akin to Spanish compadre), which was already (and still is) used in south Italy abbreviated in compa' and literally means friend and it is used colloquially mainly to address people living in the same town. This, changed through the Italo-American tendency to substitute c's for g's and p's for b's in colloquial speech, yields goombah. Steve Schirripa, who became famous playing Bobby Baccalieri on the HBO TV series The Sopranos, introduced the term to a national audience by publishing a series of books starting with A Goomba's Guide to Life (ISBN 1-4000-4639-4). It appears in popular fiction at least as early as Mario Puzo's The Godfather (1969), in which the character Jack Woltz refers to guinea Mafia goombahs. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, dfsavgny dfsavgny@ wrote: Isn't that slang for girlfiend? The N word is out of that league no coparison. Unless I'm wrong and you know I'm always wrong. Tom Let's go. Be even handed now. I am posting below an excerpt from the email blast Tom Gilmour sends out each week. This should get under your skin, even though they screwed up GOOMBAH with GUMBA. When I saw GUMBA I thought they were showing Forrest Gump. Find out who titled it Gumba Night and let them have it here and everywhere. Your wrath must fall on whoever is responsible, whether its Gilmour, Fishman or whoever. Even if it came originally from Partners, don't you think its irresponsible for the City to be repeating it? If they were showing SHAFT and MANDINGO should it be called that horrible N word Night? Gee, this right after some councilman ruined Columbus Day for us. What's an Italian-American to do? There will probably be riots in Ocean Twp over the weekend. Don;t let the boys from the Sons of Italy see Gilmour's email. The Paramount Theatre presents Gumba Night on Saturday with back- to- back showings of The Godfather and The Godfather II. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[AsburyPark] Re: Hey Tom, Larry's Got Some Movies For You - Gumba Night
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless I'm wrong and you know I'm always wrong. You can say that again. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[AsburyPark] Re: Hey Tom, Larry's Got Some Movies For You - Gumba Night
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Haven't we had enough of his here, there and everywhere wrath coming out of the woodwork? I want to see how fair treatement is when its from within their own camp. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
