[Rhodes22-list] Italian cookies (Humor)

Chris Geankoplis napoli68 at charter.net
Tue May 30 19:16:42 EDT 2006


Mamma Mia.  Atsa Italian!
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> A SWEET STORY ABOUT ITALIAN COOKIES...
>
> This is for all the Italians  out there, and those who are lucky enough to
be
> married to an Italian,
> and  even to all friends of  Italians.
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> An  elderly Italian man lay in his bed close to death.  Through his
> suffering,  he suddenly smelled the aroma of his favorite Italian anisette
sprinkle
> cookies  wafting up the stairs.  He gathered his remaining strength and
lifted
> himself off the bed.  Leaning against the wall, he slowly made his way out
of
> the bedroom.  Summoning his last reserves of strength and gripping the
stair
> railing with both hands, he crawled slowly downstairs.  With labored
breath,
> he leaned against the door frame, gazing into the kitchen.  Had he  not
been
> in such agony, he would have thought himself already in  heaven.   For
there,
> spread out upon waxed paper on the kitchen table  were literally hundreds
of
> his favorite anisette sprinkle cookies.
>
> Was he  in heaven?  Or was this one final act of love from his devoted
> Italian wife  of sixty years, making
> certain that he left this world a happy  man?
>
> Mustering one great final effort, he launched himself towards the  table,
> landing painfully on his knees.  His parched lips parted; the  wondrous
taste of
> the cookie was already in his mouth, almost bringing him back  to life.
As
> his aged, withered hand trembled its way to the nearest  cookie, it was
suddenly
> smacked hard by his wife's spatula.
>
> "Get outta  here!" she shouted.  "They're for the funeral!"
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