My 1000th post! Here's my joke, and what fun it has truly been to discover SlowTravel.


An Italian is drinking in a New York bar when he gets a call on his cell phone.. He hangs up, grinning from ear to ear, and orders a round of drinks for everybody in the bar announcing his wife had produced a typical Italian baby boy weighing 25 pounds.

Nobody can believe that any new baby can weigh in at 25 pounds, but the Italian guy just shrugs, "That's about average back home, folks......like I said, my boy's a typical Italian bambino."

Congratulations showered him from all around, and many exclamations of "WOW"....one woman actually fainted due to sympathy pains.

Two weeks later he returns to the bar.

The bartender says, "Say you're the father of that typical Italian baby that weighed 25 pounds at birth. Everybody's been making bets about how big he'd be in two weeks. So how much does he weigh now?"

The proud father answers, "Seventeen pounds."

The bartender is puzzled, concerned, and a little suspicious.
"What happened? He already weighed 25 pounds the day he was born!"

The Italian father takes a long swig of Sambuca , wipes his lips on his shirt sleeve, leans into the bartender and proudly says......

"We had him circumcised."

*splutter* *splutter*

That joke needs a splutter warning! Too funny!

Oh, and congratulations on reaching 1000

Lo, these many years ago, I told my first ex-husband that when I died I wanted to come back as an Italian male.

I still haven't changed my mind.

Terry, your joke reaffirms my decision.

Loved it, Terry!!!!!

And I've loved finding you as a friend here on Slow Travel! Congrats on 1000 and may you post many, many more--

Kathy

So glad I DIDN'T have a cup of coffee while reading this! Great joke, Terry, and congratulations on 1000 posts and your second star. I always enjoy your insights, and look forward to reading your next 1000 posts! (Edited to add: Like the "Learning Center" one. Thanks for sharing!)

jan

Ther eis a little mistake. Nobody in Italy circumcises their babies, unless for religious reasons (Jews and Muslims). Actually, the one (uh, two) and first times I have seen a live circumcised man, he was an American. (I must say that my experience is nowhere as wide as to be statistically significant, but I am still a sexually active Italian single.)

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Nobody in Italy circumcises their babies,

Well, it's no wonder! At eight pounds a foreskin, this would present a real medical-waste problem.

Marian -----