Jersey'isms (Bayonne: houses, price, buy)

[nicolem]

Originally Posted by fischfan13

You can see it in their faces?!?!?!
I would consider John Stewart a handsome looking guy, but Abe Vigoda???

I do think they resemble one another- I personally don't think either are handsome but that is just me

This is driving me crazy-maybe it is one of those Urban myths. The thing is I really remember watching Celebrity Jeopardy and him mentioning it-unless it was part of a comic shtick that went way over my head Who knows- I will have to check with hubby as he was watching it-maybe he remembers.

[tahiti]

Originally Posted by fischfan13

My Mom was not Italian.
I have to ask, why do people think that Italians have plastic on their couches and black lacquer bedroom sets?

DUDE! have you EVER been in an all Italian house in Bayonne? The backs of my legs are missing skin from all the times I've had to peel myself off the plastic during the summer!

In all fairness, I've seen plastic on the furniture in Polish houses too.

and I thought it was white lacquer, not black?

eta - don't tell me Frank Langella didn't have plastic or lacquer in his house, LOL

[wileynj]

Originally Posted by fischfan13

My Mom was not Italian.
I have to ask, why do people think that Italians have plastic on their couches and black lacquer bedroom sets?

And those hanging statues in a cage with water dripping down fish line material that makes up the cage bit : )) I'm of Irish decent and my grandparents and aunts all had plastic on their furniture - might be a brooklyn thing : )))

[nicolem]

Originally Posted by fischfan13

My Mom was not Italian.
I have to ask, why do people think that Italians have plastic on their couches and black lacquer bedroom sets?

I had many Italian friends who always had plastic on their couches. My husband's mother is Italian and many pictures from his childhood in the 70's have the plastic on the couches. He told me all his Aunt's had it too. I have to say without trying to sterotype it was always people who I knew were Italian that had the plastic on their couches. This of course is just my own unscientific observation

I don't recall black lacquer bedroom sets.

[wileynj]

Originally Posted by tahiti

DUDE! have you EVER been in an all Italian house in Bayonne? The backs of my legs are missing skin from all the times I've had to peel myself off the plastic during the summer!

In all fairness, I've seen plastic on the furniture in Polish houses too.

and I thought it was white lacquer, not black?

White shoes not white lacquer... they must wear white shoes to match their white cadillacs!

[fischfan13]

Originally Posted by tahiti

DUDE! have you EVER been in an all Italian house in Bayonne? The backs of my legs are missing skin from all the times I've had to peel myself off the plastic during the summer!

In all fairness, I've seen plastic on the furniture in Polish houses too.

and I thought it was white lacquer, not black?

Suuuure, now you slander the Polish!

Didn't you know that I am a Whoppollack?

[fischfan13]

Originally Posted by wileynj

White shoes not white lacquer... they must wear white shoes to match their white cadillacs!

yeah, and your point is?

[fischfan13]

Originally Posted by wileynj

And those hanging statues in a cage with water dripping down fish line material that makes up the cage bit : )) I'm of Irish decent and my grandparents and aunts all had plastic on their furniture - might be a brooklyn thing : )))

Geez, I used to walk into Wexler's on Broadway in Bayonne as a kid and wished that I had the cash to buy one of those dripping lines for my parents!

[wileynj]

Originally Posted by fischfan13

Suuuure, now you slander the Polish!

Didn't you know that I am a Whoppollack?

lol..I dated a whopollack once! I guess I am a mostly welshrish? Or Germrish? All Irish on dad's side - well a little english but we don't talk about that!...and mom was a mutt! Welsh, dutch, french, german!

[fischfan13]

Originally Posted by wileynj

lol..I dated a whopollack once! I guess I am a mostly welshrish? Or Germrish? All Irish on dad's side - well a little english but we don't talk about that!...and mom was a mutt! Welsh, dutch, french, german!

We call that a WASP.