A Muzi <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
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John Dacey <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>... [snip]
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I'm not persuaded by the "poker-face" explanation. I doubt that the game of poker was even much known in Bergamo in the '70s (or whenever the company originated).
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Carl Fogel said:
See your doubt and raise you. While the translator may have led me astray, Giovanni Guareschi's Don Camillo stories set in the post-war Po valley through the early 1960's featured the burly priest and communist mayor playing poker enthusiastically (and cheating wildly), possibly a legacy of the Allied invasion. It'll cost you five chips to call and find out the name of the story--am I bluffing? (I've always wanted to play poker by mail. Chess by mail was so tame.)
My favorite of the genre is "Christ stopped at Eboli". A good read and curious to this Italian- American learning about Italians.
The FAQ mentions that only 132 of the 347 stories were translated. On the one hand, maybe we got the cream. On the other hand, that's what we thought about Vivaldi until the rest of the concertos were discovered.
Tom Sherman <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
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Carl Fogel said:
Dear John,
See your doubt and raise you.
While the translator may have led me astray, Giovanni Guareschi's Don Camillo stories set in the post-war Po valley through the early 1960's featured the burly priest and communist mayor playing poker enthusiastically (and cheating wildly), possibly a legacy of the Allied invasion.
It'll cost you five chips to call and find out the name of the story--am I bluffing?...
Dear Carl,
Does the loser have to drink a bottle of castor oil?
Tom Sherman – Close to 41½ N, 90½ W
Dear Tom,
No, I see you using an empty shotgun to force both John and me to ride recumbents in a parade, dressed as Indians.
If anyone is really serious about it, and not dragging this discussion on and on just for the sake of argueing, produce me Ciocc Company's telephone number. I'll call them up and solve the mistery.
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If anyone really cares ... .
How about the Italian Ciocc representative:
Tre G Racing Pool Srl Via Pasubio nr. 62 36036 Torrebellevicino Vicenza tel 0445-660211 FAX 0445- 660243 e-mail: [email hidden]
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