Breaking my promise -- what a liar I am.
"Harper Lou wrote:
> Jerry,
>
> How dare you try to tell me or anyone else the word BIMBO is sexist? You're
> dead wrong, buddy.
Hey, Jerry and I have an intense personal relationship in which we have
plighted our troth and maybe someday if we will ever meet, we'll see what each
other's plighted trotths look like. In the meantime I must not meet him in
Florida as I have not yet forgiven that state. So Harper Lou, talk nicely to
my sweetie!
> <It's an Italian word, and it applies to both men and women. In fact, it is
> used more often for men than it is for women.>
This is true.
> Remember, Italian guys aren't fast to insult women,
no, they fast to come on to women, but never fast to insult women. Have you
ever been smacked by an Italian woman? As someone with the names Lavieri,
DiVito, Serpico, etc in my forebearers, let me tell you, you never insult an
Italian woman. But men, pasta fazul, pisan, goombo.
Hence the song addressed to a male, "bimbo, bimbo where you gon a go-i-o"
which I have heard Americanized into jimbo, jimbo...
> but they'll call each other names in a hurry. My old boss at the pizzeria I
> worked when I was 16 used to call us guys bimbos if we did something wrong.
> I never heard Tony call a woman that name, or any other name actually.
>
> It used to be a very common word in sports, particularly baseball. I also
> remember a high school wrestling coach saying, "OK you bimbos, let's...."
> <clip>
>
> <clip> The word's Italian, it's a shortened form of "Bambino" (baby). When
> applied to people, it means "dummy," "childish one," or "buffoon." Note
> that the word is BIMBO, not BIMBA. It's a masculine term.
Now Harper Lou, my special friend Jerry is a Notaro and while I haven;t asked,
I do hold out the possibility that he is a pisan. (That is good.) So you may
be giving an Italian an Italian lesson.
I think that we have now made much ado about nothing, or enough ado about
something so that everyone can chill and reflect that if someone calls you a
little frog in America you are a reptile but a little frog in French moves you
got someone sweet on you so lets just chill out and move onto better things,
such as,
why didn't Russell Crowe comb his hair at the Oscars, and what is with the
attitude? He sulked like Don Henly at the Grammies!
Marcel ripped on k d lang for her outfit at the Joni TNT tribute; can't wait to
hear him on Bjork's dead swan dress.
has Sting sold out totally or what?
Didn't you have the impression that Michael Douglas was really disappointed
when he opened the envelope, just moments after Soderbergh won for Traffic, and
say the word "Gladiator?'
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that is definately not
amore. That's a mess.
(the Rev) Vince, truly posting his last for the day
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