I recently rediscovered this great filmette about the … well… you’ll see.
Funny and true.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKC4XGGlnRI&feature=player_embedded
I’ll be in Rome soon, so I will fire up once again my donation button in case anyone would like to pitch in for a cup of coffee, cab fares, lunch, a new vestment, a Bugatti… you know… the usual stuff one gets.
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on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Thanks Father Z, cosmology lesson as only you can impart.”
on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “Hmmm. Those kind of tassels have always reminded me of fancy curtain tiebacks so I have avoided making them but…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Fr.Z sez: …The Voyagers are destined—perhaps eternally—to wander the Milky Way and then become characters in Star Trek…. V’ger!! https://youtu.be/gxAaVqdz_Vk?t=96”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Being from Florida, I remember when both Voyagers launched – you could see them from our house. At that time,…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Too bad the Curia has drifted too far from its power source…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Voyager 2 launched on 20 August 1977, from Cape Canaveral. Voyager 1 launched from Cape Canaveral on 5 September 1977.…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “I guess Voyager I gives new meaning to the poem High Flight. Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Now this is very interesting. Not just looking up at some small dots of light overhead!”
on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “The final resting place of Plato puts me in mind of a memorable excerpt I once read about Aristotle in…”
on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “Someone pointed out the St. George’s Day Google Doodle with its background account to me – with one of the…”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: ““George Farmer, aka Candace Owen’s husband. He is a revert” If I’m reading the interview correctly, first a convert, then…”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Not to detract from anything Imrahill said, but well, the papally-attested infallible ordinary magisterium about a catholic truth, not the…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Understatement of the year: they don’t make them like that anymore!” on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “What happened to Voyager 2? And what sort of “science” data will Voyager 1 soon be able to resume transmitting?…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Not too shabby for a 77’ model.”
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There is also a more focused video by the same author, also very funny and, to an extent, accurate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpNguFRzMcA
Very amusing, and as one might say ‘wildly accurate’..:-).
Especially the one about the road signs! All roads lead to Rome indeed. (And Milan. And Naples. And Ravenna. …)
I too will be in Rome soon and wonder where to go for a beautiful traditional liturgy.
And the Bugatti Veserohn is on sale for 1.75 million €!!!
You look good in blue. Cars, that is, not vestments.
Laughed the whole way through that video. It’s so true!
The smoking part cracks me up. I once was on a business trip in Milan, and had arranged to meet a business owner in a restaurant; he seemed to be well known in the house, which had many prominent “no smoking” signs here and there. Lo and behold, at the end of the meal, just around the time when copious amounts of grappa are being graciously offered, our waiter comes with cigarettes… On a tray!
I love the license plate! I might steal that for a future vanity plate.
If you replace the Italian flag with the Chinese one, the video would be just as accurate.
This reminds me again of Father’s quote from then-Cardinal Ratzinger, concerning the blessing on the Church that God had put St. Peter’s chair in Rome instead of Berlin:
“Imagine, were the Vatican in Germany, the efficiency with which we could be making our mistakes.”
This reminds me again of Father’s quote from then-Cardinal Ratzinger, concerning the blessing on the Church that God put St. Peter’s chair in Rome:
“Imagine, were the Vatican in Germany, the efficiency with which we could be making our mistakes.”
So the Italians are bad mannered. As are the Germans. Well, they’re ignorant. It seems to me that the most polite people in the world are probably the British and the Irish. I am Irish. These people are pretty good at queuing. I think the hot weather has something to do with the lack of manners in Italy, Spain, France etc… but there’s more to it than that.
Well, since RI has such a high population of Italian-Americans, I was thinking this video might also help explain the Prout explosion. And before anybody jumps me for saying that, I’m 1/2 Italian. If you met some of my kin, you wouldn’t be so quick to judge!
That brings back fond memories of when we lived in Sicily. (Hopefully the internet has at least gotten the “adult movie” posters off walls next to the school bus stops.) The first word we learned was “domani.” The second thing we learned was it has no actual meaning.
OC, what’s a ‘Prout explosion’?
That’s Italy! The only thing missing are tourist attractions, stores and restaurants during ferragosto, and trying to find one that is open. Enjoy your visit!
Magpie,
By “explosion”, I mean the blown-up, over-reaction of the parents and students to Fr. Hoffman presenting Church teaching to an audience with some people present who didn’t want to hear it. I’m not using the word explosion literally.
I like that amusing bon mot from Cardinal Ratzinger, and it has a great truth in it.
As the Italians themselves say self-deprecatingly: ‘Tutto a posto – niente in ordine!’
They forgot motor scooters on the sidewalks.
Motor scooters? That’s nothing! The following, to answer why Italians tend to consider laws as mere suggestions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLoTakkd5nU
“Imagine, were the Vatican in Germany, the efficiency with which we could be making our mistakes.”
As the old joke goes: in heaven the lovers/poets/artists are Italian and the Germans organize everything; in hell the lovers/poets/artists are German and the Italians organize everything.
As a historian, I often ask myself: How did the Italians conquer anything, never mind build one of the more impressively efficient empires?