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Thread: Yet again, I have been accused of being phenomenally middle class

  1. #11
    Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
    Yes. You have a foreign name of course, that, while it adds a certain mystique, also makes it quite clear you're a bogwog. If it weren't for that - and some odd culinary habits - you could pass.
    Everywon just assumes I am jock.

    If I have a kid I will give him an Italian first name.

    Though my wife doesn't like the idea.

  2. #12
    Quote Originally Posted by Pat Vegas View Post
    Everywon just assumes I am jock.

    If I have a kid I will give him an Italian first name.

    Though my wife doesn't like the idea.
    'Giuseppe McTavish', eh?

  3. #13
    Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
    'Giuseppe McTavish', eh?
    I better pick one I can pronounce properly.

    How come the name Enzo is common in the boxing world.

  4. #14
    Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
    'Giuseppe McTavish', eh?
    For some reason there have been a number of Scotch raciing drivers of Italian extraction. eg: Dario Franchitti

  5. #15
    Quote Originally Posted by Pat Vegas View Post
    Everywon just assumes I am jock.

    If I have a kid I will give him an Italian first name.

    Though my wife doesn't like the idea.
    One of my sons is named "Carmine".

    lol. Yeah, right. We just call him "Minnie".
    "Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.

    "But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."

  6. #16
    Quote Originally Posted by Pat Vegas View Post
    I better pick one I can pronounce properly.

    How come the name Enzo is common in the boxing world.
    It's a shortening of "Vincent", innit. Anyway "Vincenzo".
    "Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.

    "But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."

  7. #17
    Quote Originally Posted by Pat Vegas View Post
    I better pick one I can pronounce properly.

    How come the name Enzo is common in the boxing world.
    There's only one Enzo, Pat. Enzo Ferrari



    as you can see - Mesut Ozil in a previous life.

  8. #18
    Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
    For some reason there have been a number of Scotch raciing drivers of Italian extraction. eg: Dario Franchitti
    That whiny young singer too, did "Iron Sky".
    "Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.

    "But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."

  9. #19
    Quote Originally Posted by redgunamo View Post
    One of my sons is named "Carmine".

    lol. Yeah, right. We just call him "Minnie".
    That's the sort of name you find on American mafia type shows. Carmine is usually an associate.

  10. #20
    Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
    Yes. You have a foreign name of course, that, while it adds a certain mystique, also makes it quite clear you're a clogwog. If it weren't for that - and some odd culinary habits - you could pass.
    Very kind of you to say so, b.

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