Nocioni = Big Nuts
by sactown on Mar 2, 2009 5:33 AM PST
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PrintOnce in awhile, speaking Italian comes in handy. Here's my contribution to the nickname brigade, through a literal Italian reading of Nocioni's name.
In Italian noce = nut (or walnut). The suffix -one makes the noun that it's attached to "big." Like a bacio is a kiss, and a bacione is a big kiss. So a nocione is thus a "big nut." And to pluralize, Italian does not append -s to the end of the noun. If the noun ends in an -e, then that -e becomes an -i to indicate the plural. Thus you have one nocione and two nocioni. There we have it, nocioni means "big nuts."
Andres "Big Nuts" Nocioni. Now he just has to drain a couple game winners to justify the nickname.
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THAT. IS. AWESOME.
He probably plays as hard as he does so he doesn’t go against his name.
However, isn’t Andrés Nocioni Argentinean?
They've done studies you know: 60% of the time, it works every time.
He’s an Argentine of Italian descent. About 1/5 of all Argentines are of Italian descent, the result of mass emigration from Italy in the early 1900s.
Maybe he can wear Cassell's shorts
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by section214 on Mar 2, 2009 8:18 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
LOL 214
Only you sir.
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
I am the stone that builder refused..I am the visual...The inspiration..That made lady sing the blues....I'm the spark that makes your idea bright.....The same spark that lights the dark....So that you can know your left from your right...I am the ballot in your box....The bullet in your gun...The inner glow that lets you know...To call your brother son....The story that just begun...The promise of what's to come...And I'm 'a remain a soldier till the war is won....
I'm glad it didn't come out as
‘Kiss my big nuts’ sounded like we were headed.that way for a minute
So imitate the action of the tiger!
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favoured rage.
- lend the eye a terrible aspect,
Now set the teeth - and teach them how to war!
Henry V iii
That's a great nickname
The one I had for him: Andre “The Muscle” Nocioni. Nicknamed him “The Muscle” because he looks like the guy who would be the muscle doing the dirty work for the mob bosses.
smell the ashes
by iamstern'skippah! on Mar 2, 2009 12:55 PM PST reply actions
in chicago
at the time last year when eddy curry and antoine walker got robbed. we talked about someone trying to rob noce. we ended up with the conclusion that noce would end up robbing the theives. guy is too tough.
The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother! I call him Gamblor, and it's time to snatch your mother from his neon claws!!
I'll call my Sister in Italy just to check your translation
(besides, she always complains I don’t call)
So imitate the action of the tiger!
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favoured rage.
- lend the eye a terrible aspect,
Now set the teeth - and teach them how to war!
Henry V iii
Already called her...
She’s VERY familiar with the term, says the translation is good.
by DustyG on Mar 2, 2009 3:02 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
How's she doing?
So imitate the action of the tiger!
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favoured rage.
- lend the eye a terrible aspect,
Now set the teeth - and teach them how to war!
Henry V iii
by lietothegirls on Mar 2, 2009 3:08 PM PST up reply actions
That's an equally great response IMO
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
I am the stone that builder refused..I am the visual...The inspiration..That made lady sing the blues....I'm the spark that makes your idea bright.....The same spark that lights the dark....So that you can know your left from your right...I am the ballot in your box....The bullet in your gun...The inner glow that lets you know...To call your brother son....The story that just begun...The promise of what's to come...And I'm 'a remain a soldier till the war is won....
It actually sums her up pretty well
family – what can you do?
So imitate the action of the tiger!
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favoured rage.
- lend the eye a terrible aspect,
Now set the teeth - and teach them how to war!
Henry V iii
by lietothegirls on Mar 2, 2009 3:10 PM PST up reply actions
Shoot them?
Give them LSD? Disown them? Sell them down the river to the Feds?
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
I am the stone that builder refused..I am the visual...The inspiration..That made lady sing the blues....I'm the spark that makes your idea bright.....The same spark that lights the dark....So that you can know your left from your right...I am the ballot in your box....The bullet in your gun...The inner glow that lets you know...To call your brother son....The story that just begun...The promise of what's to come...And I'm 'a remain a soldier till the war is won....
That is just too funny
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
I am the stone that builder refused..I am the visual...The inspiration..That made lady sing the blues....I'm the spark that makes your idea bright.....The same spark that lights the dark....So that you can know your left from your right...I am the ballot in your box....The bullet in your gun...The inner glow that lets you know...To call your brother son....The story that just begun...The promise of what's to come...And I'm 'a remain a soldier till the war is won....
Zing!
Well done!
Wait....Why is everybody clapping? Everyone around me is clapping.... I guess I should be clapping too... GO LAKERS!!! I hate living in So Cal
better than Danilo "the Coq" Gallinari
I’m on board with this
Donte? Donte'! Donté?!?!
'spect da 'xtra E'
Hilarious nickname.
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