Hobbit or Italian American?
In this past year having spent loads of time with my Italian-American family in New York, I have come to some conclusions about our similarities to JRR Tolkein's Hobbits.You are either a hobbit or an Italian-American if you...
- Eat more than six meals a day
- Feel shorter than most people on earth (and Middle Earth)
- Have a large extended family and everyone practically lives on top of each other
- Feel obligated to invite your entire extended family to every family gathering (even if most of them drive you batty).
- Often are mistaken for a dwarf
- Never are mistaken for an elf
- Look to men in flowing robes for spiritual advice
- Have a thing for rings
- Live long and tell good stories.
- Have a distinctive name. (My Hobbit name is Hambut Proudfoot)
- Are into designer clothing (elfin or Zegna will both do)
- Have an inordinate amount of hair growing on your toes and out your ears
posted by Peterson Toscano @ 11:18 AM
4 Comments:
Depleting the pure genes. Yeah, it's happened to the Toscanos too. In fact, we have a mini UN gathering these days when we all get together.
LOL - yes, you Italians do seem to get around. Even my family from the deepest and most orange recesses of Belfast has some Italian blood in the gene pool!
Remind me to tell you about our good Belfast-Protestant family scandal involving a Catholic ice-cream maker from Italy ;)
CA
Hambut, I'd much rather have your name than mine: Fosco Maggot
Seriously.
Tom D.
Pimpernel Danderfluff of Willowbottom
i guess that means we're related bob (and i won't even begin to expound/comment/rebut your "Orlando Bloom" statement).
;-)
loves y'all
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