Messages from Lucca

Saturday, September 16, 2006

Oh Poo...

More thunderstorms today.
An oft-repeated television commercial here informs us that young Italians can now download their favorite pop tunes directly to their mobile phones. We recognize among the Top 30 List such recent hits as La Squadra Bellissimi, a tribute to the newly-crowned Italian World Cup (Soccer) Champions, which my cousin's husband Lucciano insisted on playing for us during our evening at the their home the other night. It is a bouncy tune, with lyrics delivered at a machine-gun pace (far beyond our capabilities) and apparently employs many and compounded grammatical errors - for instance, the lack of gender/plurality agreement between noun and adjective- to great comedic effect. We are not sure exactly why this should be so funny, but we are assured that it is.
Another hit now tracking through the charts is titled Poo Poo-poo-poo. We have run to our dictionaries in the hope that it would translate as something like "La La-la-la" or something similarly innocuous, but we came up empty. Those of you with 10-year-boys at home might consider referring the problem to them.

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