Ned Carlson wrote:

Patrick Turner wrote:

To learn that many matches have been arranged between Italian millionaires and
referees comes as no surprise since Italy has exported so many mafia crooks over
the years.

Hey: Cannoli. Gelato. Tiramisu. Enrico Fermi. Michelangelo.
Ferraris (but not Fiats). Galileo. Leonardo da Vinci. Ducatis.
If Italians weren't on this planet, we'd be trying to figure out
how beam them down so the place wouldn't be so freaking boring.

OK, Mussolini, Al Capone (well, he helped make Chicago famous)
and Lucretia Borgia kinda sucked. However, I'm not sure if
I'd trade 'em for John Howard and Pauline Hanson ;-)

Well, however you traded them may draw some criticism from a vocal few here at the
moment.

All I can say is that if you have sinned, then confess, recite your penance prayers,
and seek forgiveness and move on.
Its a Holy Roman Catholic Procedure....inaugurated in Italy after a certain Inventor
dreamed up ideas about compassion, forgiveness and love in the middle east, in the
midst of
waring factions in about the year 33.

I have had very long and pleasant relationships with the Italians I have known....

I musta just never been unlucky to get involved with the wrong lot.
And I have never voted for either John Bloward, or Pauline Pantsdown.

What would history be if there hadn't been a Rome?



Patrick Turner.







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