Re: [IRCA] IRCA Quote Of The Week

[Milspec390@xxxxxxx]

Estimado Bob - 

   Thank you. Thank you most kindly. I was remiss in not defining 'gavone', 
as marked w/*.

Bob Grant frequently described pig-ignorant boors whose utter dearth of facts 
is inversely proportional to the fervor with which they assert their point, 
as 'gavones'.

 'Gavone' is Neapolitan, or 'Nabblytahn' slang for southern Italian dialect, 
'Caifon', meaning hillbilly, an ignorant person who makes a lot of money and 
spends it foolishly.

 Our Brit friends here on billionaire's row prefer 'Gaffon'. Doesn't it sound 
more fit for use when amongst polite company? Does it create a picture in 
your mind's eye of a babboon, money bag in one paw, wildly thrashing a 
marlinspike with the other as it wends its way through a glass house?

 Some theorize another variant, 'Guvvoon' is courtesy of the Sicilians, whose 
dialect evinces Moorish influence. Speculation, learned and otherwise aside, 
draws a nice picture, yes?

  In short, one can correctly use all variants of Caifon to describe those 
who know the cost of everything - and the value of nothing.

                                                                              
    Dr. Zecchino

PV Zecchino, T.D.
Caifon-at-large for the district of
Manasota Key, FL

 
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