Thread by @JohnnyCiucci

On the Burning of Witches, I miss you Julie - A thread

So Papi, my brother, Luigi, my son, Luigi's 3 boys and my daughter are sat on my Grandfather's boat, off Sicily, fishing for line caught tuna this morning.

Papi has not been to bed. He got rather excited trying to tell a

joke involving the actor @JosephMcGann, the character 'Pussy Galore' and inserting the lyricism of Italian into his story. So excited was he that he may have drunk all of my Uncle's Grappa (2 litres). He's asleep in a chair.

Although I am my Father's favoured son, it is Liugi

who most closely resembles him. We're sitting quietly, as our family has for centuries, when Papi awakes. He never needs any time to do so. First thing he says: 'Hey, how did Joseph like a joke?'
Me: 'I don't know, Dad. He's not responded.'
"What about Julie, what did she say?'

(Dad thinks that Twitter is like a family zoom call)
'Again, Papi, I don't know.'
'Ask her.'
'I can't'.
'Why?'
I then explain that she has taken herself off the medium after receiving much opprobium for a joke. I tell him the joke.
Now Papi, though uncouth, is an educated man.

He laughs, as being Italian he is both a Republican and a vehement anti-Monarchist. But he is quick to appreciate the connotations that some could put on the joke. He ponders, whilst stacking his pipe (it's okay puritans, he smokes it on the attached row-boat) and says:

'Seriously, Giovanni, are you saying that the Angles (his name for the English speaking countries) are saying that people who disagree with them must be silenced and they rejoice like little kiddies when they achieve this?
'Some are, yes.'
'Well, tell the Angles from me

Liugi: 'Speech coming up. He will stand, probably put his fist in the air.'

Papi stands and puts his fist in the air. 'I lived with you for 54 years. Never again will I visit. And each game you play in the Euros, I will support the opposition. Now I wanna song for Julie:

Liugi pulls out his phone.
Papi fills his lungs: 'From the Italian American that take a none of this effluence'
Luigi hits play:
'For Julie'.

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