You Know You're Italian AGAIN when ...

1. Your mechanic, plumber, electrician, accountant and travel agent are all blood relatives.

2. You're 5'4", can bench press 325 pounds, shave twice a day, but you still cry when your mother yells at you.

3. When you were growing up, you ate Sunday dinner at 2:00 p.m., and on Thanksgiving, your family’s first course was Ravioli.

4. You’ve been hit with a spoon, had a shoe thrown at you, and/or you’ve been hit by a nun.

5. You feel strangely comfortable when you sit on plastic-covered furniture.

6. No matter how long you've been married, your wife "just can't make homemade sauce like Mom did."

7. You've seen a guy sitting in the AC in shorts, perfect white Reebok classics (nosocks), a half zipped up Nike wind jacket showing off his chest hair -- gold
chains, fat gut, smoking half a cigar and thought he was the coolest guy
you've ever seen.

8. You've called someone a "mamaluke."

9. You have at least 5 cousins living in the same town or street. All five of those cousins are named after your grandfather or grandmother.

10. You only get one good shave from a disposable razor.


Soprano's/The Godfather/A Bronx Tale .. give a general idea of the Italian tradition but each concentrates on Mafia, giving the Italian race a "bad name"