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How Rome Has Fallen!
By Smaktakula It’s been an awful long time since anyone was afraid of the Italians. In recent history–the 19th, 20th and now 21st Centuries, Italy has stumbled from one embarrassing episode to another–dictators, side-switching in both World Wars and a … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Culture, History
Tagged gladiators, glory days, Goombah, Italy, legionaries, Rome, the Roman Legion, the Rubicon
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Tardsie: Return To Sender
By Smaktakula Oh, happy day!–we’ve just received word from the Shelby County Sheriff’s Department that our beloved Editor-In-Chief, Tardsie D. Bagg, has been found alive–and for the most part well–in Memphis, Tennessee. During our brief and acrimonious phone conversation with the nylon … Continue reading
Posted in Culture
Tagged Austin Powers, clowns, Elvis Aaron Presley, Italy, OxyContin, Patriot Act, Rome, Tardsie, Travels With Tardsie, Washington DC
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Putting The Italian Army To Good Use
By Smaktakula Have you heard about the new Italian rifle? It’s never been fired and only dropped once. Jokes like this hoary old chestnut have lately fallen out of favor because they tend to perpetuate harmful stereotypes. However, some stereotypes … Continue reading
Posted in Culture
Tagged bad jokes, Ethiopia, fun with stereotypes, Italian Army, Italian Stereotypes, Italy, Naples, orgies, places that suck, prostitution, Rome, Salvation Army, Silvio Berlusconi, treachery
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Stracciatella: Culinary Delicacy Or Social Disease?
By Smaktakula This one fooled us, too. Apparently stracciatella can refer to such varied foodstuffs as a soup, cheese and ice-cream. It is known neither to cause painful urination nor unsightly blemishes on the nether-regions. Now the idea of “picking … Continue reading
Posted in Culture
Tagged blemishes, cheeses, childish sexual innuendo, educational films, gelato, GIs, Italy, one's a cunning runt, painful urination, social disease, soldiers, soups, STDs, STDs are no laughing matter!, stracciatella, the heartbreak of stracciatella, the Stratch, unsightly blemishes, VD, venereal disease, World War II, WWII
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Commercials We Do Not Like: The Olive Garden
By Smaktakula The Olive Garden has been crapping out adequate fare for nearly thirty years, all the while striving mightily to frame itself as the workingman’s access to continental dining. Targeting those customers for whom the Red Lobster is too provincial, the Olive Garden aspires to bring the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Commercials, Corporate Culture, Culture, Food, General Foolishness, People, Relationships, Social Networking, Television
Tagged Commercials, commercials we do not like, craptastic eatery, Elko, fat people, Italian food, Italy, Kentucky, Lexington, MSG, Nevada, Olive Garden, people of size, Red Lobster, seedy massage parlors frequented by Smaktakula, when you're here you're family, Why am I so fat?
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