Charlie Self wrote:

Italian-Irish neighborhood. Mostly, though, I had learned to cuss in a
second language and heard a lot of women say, "Mangia, mangia...you too
skinny!"

Wish I could hear the same today.

You too skinny!

Feel better?

I suppose not.

I would have taken eye-talian myself, but it was never offered anywhere I
went to school. My first choice was Russian. Never offered in high school
or college. Then German. Offered only in college. Then Spanish. So I
started with Spanish, then took French and Latin for kicks. Eight, six and
four years respectively.

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Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan
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