I’d like the nominating committee to know that I am still anxiously awaiting my statuette for yesterday’s Great PLUSA Truce of ’09…I’ve already cleared a spot on my display shelf. Ahem….
Mornin’ folks!
(thanks for shutting off the lights again last night Cargar)
The next time I go to my company’s Milan office, I am going to check if this term “polpette” is “corrente” in Italy. “Corrente” literally means “current”, but it is hard to convey its true meaning, which kind of is “really used in the language”.
Just because it is an Italian word, one should not assume that it is used there. For instance, the phrase “Fettucine Alfredo” is “Non corrente” in Italy, even though it was indeed invented at a restaurant in Rome called Alfredo’s. Some American movie stars (I forgot whom) came upon it and made the phrase popular here, but it is virtually unknown in Italy (though the dish certainly exists).
Another example is the common salutation among Italian-Americans of “cin'(t)ann”, which is supposed to mean “live a hundred years”. When I first tried this in Italy, they looked at me as if I had said the equivalent to “To your horse’s health”. The expression doesn’t exist there.
I have a feeling that the term “polpette” is not used in Italy – I simply don’t recall coming across it in my time there. However, in the interest of peace, I’ll say that I might be wrong on that, and so I’m going to check it out next time I go there.
Nice throwback, biff. Some reminders in there that we were in the middle of election season, then. I remember discussing Joe the (unlicensed) Plumber with Master (the licensed) Plvmber and Smokeychimp at Union Hall. We’ve definitely lost some folks — there was a big presence of brownstoner regulars who were not OT regulars. I think a lot of those folks have fallen by the wayside as part of the PLUSA social scene.
No prob, Snappy, but did you see *rob* try and get me in trouble with you by turning them back on and leaving them on?
“English muffins” are unheard of in England.
I’d like the nominating committee to know that I am still anxiously awaiting my statuette for yesterday’s Great PLUSA Truce of ’09…I’ve already cleared a spot on my display shelf. Ahem….
Mornin’ folks!
(thanks for shutting off the lights again last night Cargar)
An apartment on the 68th floor of One Conduit Road in Hong Kong just sold for HK$439 MM (US$57 MM) or HK$88,000 psf…US$ 11,354 psf.
The developer is asking HK$ 100,000 psf for the two penthouse units.
Dave and all;
The next time I go to my company’s Milan office, I am going to check if this term “polpette” is “corrente” in Italy. “Corrente” literally means “current”, but it is hard to convey its true meaning, which kind of is “really used in the language”.
Just because it is an Italian word, one should not assume that it is used there. For instance, the phrase “Fettucine Alfredo” is “Non corrente” in Italy, even though it was indeed invented at a restaurant in Rome called Alfredo’s. Some American movie stars (I forgot whom) came upon it and made the phrase popular here, but it is virtually unknown in Italy (though the dish certainly exists).
Another example is the common salutation among Italian-Americans of “cin'(t)ann”, which is supposed to mean “live a hundred years”. When I first tried this in Italy, they looked at me as if I had said the equivalent to “To your horse’s health”. The expression doesn’t exist there.
I have a feeling that the term “polpette” is not used in Italy – I simply don’t recall coming across it in my time there. However, in the interest of peace, I’ll say that I might be wrong on that, and so I’m going to check it out next time I go there.
I’ll have something I like to call Troll-Off.
Nice throwback, biff. Some reminders in there that we were in the middle of election season, then. I remember discussing Joe the (unlicensed) Plumber with Master (the licensed) Plvmber and Smokeychimp at Union Hall. We’ve definitely lost some folks — there was a big presence of brownstoner regulars who were not OT regulars. I think a lot of those folks have fallen by the wayside as part of the PLUSA social scene.
Hmm, on second thought, maybe I should start a blog called Rehabville!
cobble, will you have Troll Spray???