October 5, 2010
I meet Mister No Money on the streets of Giarratana—a small town known for its big onions—under a canopy of goose-down clouds. He doffs his hat and blinks eyes round and red as sun-dried tomatoes. “I am Giuseppe Scarso. In Sicilian my name means No Money.” His face cracks open into a bright smile. “And I really have no money!”
Nomen est omen.
His pal is Mister Happy (Signor Felice).
Mister No Money & Mister Happy
My plumber is Mister Horse (Cavallo); my neighbor Ms. Painted Eyes (Occhipinti); my ex-landlord Hector the Onion (Ettore Cippola); my hunky banker Mister Love (Amore).
Names lifted from some fairy tale.
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Nice post!
Jodina of http://ItalianoWithJodina.com
(aka Jodina DiGallo which means Jodina of the Gauls and is a nice tip of the hat to my myriad ancestry, esp. as gallo also means ‘rooster’ or in tedesco ‘hahn’ also a family name in my clan 😉
Thank you Jodina of the Gauls!
I must be a close relation to Mr. No-Money, in fact it’s my middle name! Oh and Huizinga almost certainly comes from the Dutch for house – huis, I’d say.
Yes, my name is related to “house”–quite a boring name, but it probably explains my passion for little Sicilian houses.
Renna, means reindeer,
grandkids think it’s a really cool name
on Christmas Eve,
and they all have a reindeer stuffed animal in
their room.
Emalene–that IS a cool name–don’t you wonder how your Italian ancestors got that name??????
Wonderful names………..Ever wonder what Huizenga means? Just a thought.
See ya soon.
BACI-Christine
What a good name for a hot guy, Signor Amore. 🙂
Yes, maybe he was born with a name like Onion, and changed it to Amore?