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WOW!!!it is funny my own

Richard Day — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:02:53 +0000

In reply to I'll have to look for that

WOW!!!

it is funny my own ringups cause me pause like that; indicate a year.

I never met el duce though! ha

I'll have to look for that

MrSmith1 — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 05:36:45 +0000

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I'll have to look for that movie... Sounds great! And I recommend Seven Beauties too. lol

When I lived in Long Island City many years ago, it was in a neighborhood filled with Old World Italians. There was a small grocery store two blocks from my apt. called John's market, and I used to go there every Saturday. One day, when I was in a hurry, my total rang up as $19.42, and the owner, John said to me in his thick Italian accent, "That was a good year. I remember, I was a little boy, in Italy, and one day, this big white car came to my town, and out stepped Mussolini..." I put down the grocery bag and he told me the story of the day Mussolini came to town and I thought to myself, 'God, I love this neighborhood."

The family story is that

cmaukonen — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 03:41:56 +0000

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The family story is that Matti was at the border at Niagara Falls with some buddies and they dared him to walk across so he did. And kept on walking. Ended up in Ohio where he met my grandmother and eventually married her.

Everybody in my line came

anna am — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 03:39:54 +0000

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Everybody in my line came straight to New York and nobody has moved too far away even now. On both sides, but on the Finnish end, the migration was Kuopio to 110th Street.

Quite a change there. From Naples, not so much.

Baci, Ramona! I've only met

anna am — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 03:34:04 +0000

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Baci, Ramona!

I've only met one other person in my life with the combination. We've been friends ever since -- for like forty years.

Indeed. Along similar lines,

cmaukonen — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 03:14:47 +0000

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Indeed. Along similar lines, Germany has been trying for a number of years to get those who have immigrated there to assimilate into the German culture and they have finally had to admit that it has been an abysmal failure. The various cultures choose to remain to themselves.

I am Scott on my mother's

cmaukonen — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:58:30 +0000

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I am Scott on my mother's side and Finnish on my Father's side. My grandfather, Matti Maukonen, came over from Helsinki to Canada then to America.

My goodness, another one!A

Richard Day — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:46:37 +0000

In reply to Nothing is better than half

My goodness, another one!

A lot of Italians and Finnish up in these parts!

Nothing is better than half

Ramona — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:42:23 +0000

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Nothing is better than half Finnish, half Italian. Oh, wait. . .that's me!

I dunno, cmaukonen. Are you

anna am — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:38:26 +0000

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I dunno, cmaukonen. Are you half scot or are you all suomen?