Italy's first female astronaut heads to ISS in Russian craft

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[Revelation 911]

well then why with the stereotypes?

spaghetti bender, guinea, W.O.P., daygo, mamas boy - I've heard em all - what surprises me is that I hear them here, among friends

[BenLurkin]

I would say that she is a pistol — but turns out she’s a holster.

[BenLurkin]

Once dated a girl who was half Italian and half Albanian. Her father had been an Italian soldier during WWII who met and married an Albanian woman he met while serving in the Balkans. She looked a bit like this gal. Similar eyes, high cheekbones and nose. She was pistol.