[rollei_list] Re: OT - Sorry to be pedantic, and all that ... (was: Latin Plural of Virus)

  • From: Ardeshir Mehta <ardeshir@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:59:20 -0500

On Tuesday, January 25, 2005, at 01:43  AM, jon.stanton@xxxxxxxxxxx 
wrote:

>>> "Wasn't Chiano Mussolini's nephew?
>>
>> Il Comte di Ciano was Mussolini's son-in-law.  Marc"
>
> Marc probably knows this...Chano Pozo was a famous Bongo player in the 
> 40's..laying  the foundation for Latin Jazz. He was playing in Dizzy 
> Gillespie's band when at age 33 he was murdered. Urban legend has it 
> that he was murdered for incorporating secret Voodoo rhythms into his 
> music, much like Mozart was said to have been murdered for divulging 
> Masonic secrets in his opera the Magic Flute. Chino Pozo was his 
> cousin.

Sometimes I don't know whether something is supposed to be a joke, or 
perfectly serious! This bit is delicious, anyway. Thanks!

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