We’re just havin’ a little fun…
Many, many years ago, a woman and her sister took a boat from a small port in Greece, headed to America. They came down the Saint Lawrence River, through Canada and into Chicago…then eventually made it to the Southland. You’d think that would be enough of a story, but then one sister met a man from Connecticut, with Italian roots. They didn’t even speak the same language, but somehow, magically fell in love and married in as Disney a way as you could imagine. He was a barber, she was a seamstress. As nature tends to have it, they had two beautiful children…a boy first, then a girl. All this sound familiar? It should.
Other than being Greek, Italian and Southern, nothing seemed out of the ordinary growing up. As a matter of fact, things couldn’t BE more normal, especially if you were raised in a predominantly Greek speaking household anywhere in the States, which we were. There was some Italian here and there, but the Greek. OH! The Greek.
Very much like dialects and colloquialisms or “isms” found in the States, such as “fixin’ to go,” calling a water fountain a “bubbler” or even the variations of “soda, pop, or coke” depending on where you’re standing in the continental U.S., Greeks have a lively bunch of sayings that are very funny if translated, sometimes not, but if you grew up hearing some of these, you have a warm spot for them. We called some friends, a few relatives, and started a list of things heard in the house, at the “kentro” or anywhere a group of Greeks gathered. Some may bring a smile, some a tear and some may make you break into a Pavlovian run, held-over from childhood. You know you know them…you know you’ve heard them.
So as we sit here in our 40s, parents long gone and relatives aging….we thought we’d pass on some of the things we heard as kids, collect others we weren’t familiar with and put them into something wearable and laughable, for you to enjoy. They’re all meant in fun, we’re all adults here, right?
Thus, “Mori” and “More” was born. Don’t ask us to translate it….you know what we’re talking about. You know you do. If you don’t, well then, “na!”
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