Sept. 28th Dinner....

Just to show how old I am...I still don't know WHAT they're referring to (though I could probably make a pretty good guess).

But I was alway kind've ambiviant to that sort of stuff, anyway. Food is my friend. Long as there's enough garlic bread & wine for me, the rest of you can go through all the 'thai peppers' and 'Zig-Zag Straws' you want.



Apple

Yeah, but the food tastes so much better after ........ ahhhh, never mind.

So Commandare Plaw, do you have everything under control?
DS and I will be there. Mikey Montana will not.
I may get there a bit earlier for some drinks at the bar if anyone else wants to join me.
Probably be there by 6 or so.


Don Cardi

How about your wives?

You're not going if the chicks don't come? :p

Are you asking me if you can have our wives?

Oh, you mean are we taking our wives to the dinner? Unfortunately my wife cannot make it this time.
And DS has informed me that his wife will not be able to attend either.

Don Cardi

Take my wife.....please.

Your wife wanted me to take her somewhere she's never been before.

I took her into the kitchen.

That's her. You know what she made for dinner last night?
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Reservations.

Thats OK.... My wife and I have the secret to making a marriage last. Two times a week, we go to a nice restaurant, a little wine, good food..... She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

You know how I can tell when my wife has an orgasm?
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She drops her nail file.

Ouch.....speaking of:

My wife and I went to a hotel where we got a waterbed. My wife called it the Dead Sea.

You two sound like Rodney & Groucho!!


Speaking of Groucho:

"Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife."Groucho Marx

TIS

May I add that I finally learned that the best way to get sex with your wife, is to gently hold her nose when she sleeps. When her mouth opens pop two asprin in there! She will wake up coughing and spit them out asking what the heck is going on.
Reply honestly, oh it was two Asprin?
When she asks what the heck for, and says she does not have a headache. Just reply good so we are okay for sex tonight then!


Don Cardi

Sick, sick, sick. If I had only known....maybe I would've hooked up with you all sooner!

Is it any wonder that you fit in perfectly? :p

Mouth open.....sex. You don't want to know the mental picture I am having right now.

Perv!

Oh no my virgin ears can't take this kind of talk J/K

Yes, but I can spell.

Beth E, is it true what Geoff told said?

He told me that if we order Fried Zucchini at the dinner, then you'll show up.


Don Cardi

I like my zucchini melted in the microwave. You should know that.

Yeah, that's right. What the hell was I thinking?

So we'll have them nuke it for ya, ok?


Don Cardi

While the microwave is spinning Beth's zucchini, perhaps they can defrost my cheesecake?

They might need a blow torch for that.

Ooh...blow torch.

Never mind.

Sorry, Beth, I can no longer engage in this discussion with you, as the morals police might be reading this.

That's ok. Slap the handcuffs on me.

Are you asking me if you can have our wives?

Oh, you mean are we taking our wives to the dinner? Unfortunately my wife cannot make it this time.
And DS has informed me that his wife will not be able to attend either.

Don Cardi [/b][/quote]Don't worry DC I'll pretend to be your wife for the evening.

Last time I looked, I only had one wife...

Are you asking me if you can have our wives?

Don Cardi [/b][/quote]This reminds me of the scene in The Blues Brothers, when they're eating in the very posh restaurant, and John Belushi is trying to buy the women at the next table.

"How much for the little girl? Your women! I want to buy your women!"

So that's where Geoff got that idea from. :p

Don Cardi

Just a reminder for all about next week.

Casa Dante
The choice of wiseguys, lawyers and senators.
737 Newark Avenue
Jersey City, NJ 07306
Phone: 201-795-2750


Wednesday September 28th 7:00PM


Don Cardi

I'm gonna call and make a reservation tonight. Just want to make sure I have everyone....

Myself + GF
Apple
SC + Lori
Don Cardi
DMC + Flame Angel
JG
Scilian Babe + Mr. Babe
Turnbull
Don Smitty

Am I forgetting anyone? Anyone above not coming?

We will be there, I haven't gotten directions yet but I will be coming from Piscataway. I get out of class around 6:15 so not sure how long it will take. what time are the reservations going to be for?

The reservations will be for 7:00 PM.

From Piscatawy, I'd take Rt. 287 North to Rt. 78 East.

Get off at Grand Street in Jersey City (first or second exit after the toll, I'm not sure).

After that, I could direct you if I was in the car with you, but I don't know the names of the streets. The restaurant is about 5-10 minutes from there, though.

Actually, you should probably consult Mapquest or something. I gave JG perfect directions once to a place that was literally five minutes from where he was, and he got totally lost and blamed it on me.

The total trip should take about 45 mins or so, depending on traffic.

Thats because he took the exit at 50 mph and drove off the road. :rolleyes:

Yeah, similar to the "perfect" directions that you once gave me also. :p


Don Cardi

When I gave you the directions to Casa Dante the first time, I told you the same thing I just told DMC, about not knowing the street names.

JG was staying at the Sheraton, on the eastbound side of Route 3, just across the road from Giants Stadium.

I was giving him directions to a place in Secaucus. This is what I wrote:

Take the eastbound service road of Rt. 3. Make the second right off the service road, go one block, make a left, and then go two blocks to the restaurant.

It wound up taking him about 45 minutes, and he arrived from the completely opposite direction. :rolleyes:

And then he had the audacity to blame it on me.

Made me take the streets all the way there! Then on the way home I found a direct highway that bypassed all those streets with lights and got me home 20 minutes faster than going the way you told me to go. :p

Just busting them on you my friend.


Don Cardi

Hey, no picking on my friend Plaw. After all, he's in charge of the garlic bread Wednesday night. So you'd really be better off sucking up to him a bit.

Yeah, says who? SC and I have taken over the garlic bread business, Plaw will provide the mussels, Don Malta and Turnbull the peppers. And you young lady, will be in charge of the dessert!

NO CHEESECAKE FOR YOU! SB The cheesecake nazi!


Don Cardi

Can't wait to see everybody. I promised DMC that if I go to the bar to get a coke I wont disapear this time.

DS

...clouds of cigarette smoke already gathering over Jersey City...

Now wait a minute! You are the one who started with the cigars over in the other thread, we didn't.


Don Cardi

That's what I want! Brandy, cigars and a big ol' cheesecake!!

They couldn't have been that "perfect" then, could they? :p

Hey, I can't help it if you went on their website and decided to follow their wrong directions. Mine were perfect.

So where the hell was everyone last night? I waited there for 3 hours!

Am I the only one who didn't follow Plaws directions? :p


Don Cardi

Did they have you waiting in the lobby?

Youse guys (and gals!) enjoy yerselves tonite!

te salute!

tony b.

...tipping an imaginary Limoncella in your honor...

So who will be there tonight?


DS

I will be there Harry ugh I mean Smitty

I will be there Harry ugh I mean Smitty [/QB][/QUOTE]


Weren't you supposed to remind me about something?





Don Cardi

Buon Appetito. And try not to get into anything regarding freedom of speech, consensual sex in private between adults, defining a liberal or conservative, separation of church and state, the real cause of the Iraqi war. But I do expect new theories on who the guy is eating Chinese food, who opened the drapes and why did Frankie changed his testimony. :p

Oh...is that dinner tonight???

Apple

I've been to two so far, and I am happy to say that no one has ever brought up politics. We just have a good time.


DS

Just hope that DC doesn't go after any managers at the place.


DS

As long as they don't get wise with my sister, then I won't.


Yes, and it will be followed with a reading of the classic mafia family novel " The Godfather."


Don Cardi

I will be there Harry ugh I mean Smitty [/b][/quote]Weren't you supposed to remind me about something?





Don Cardi [/QB][/QUOTE]


hmmmmmm I'm drawing a blank on what it was, I remember it had something to do with Donnie Brasco. But now I don't know if it's the book or the $500 in an envelope :p

I'm feeling a little under the weather. Everyone have a drink for me.

:(

Of course I don't have to tell you to have fun, I know you will. Enjoy yourselves everyone!! Have a drink for me too ok???? Go ahead and pig-out.


TIS

JGeoff:
"Plawrence, I want to thank you for helping me organize this -- meeting here today. And also the other heads of the Five Families -- New York and New Jersey.
Sicilian Babe and Mr. Babe from the Bronx -- and ah -- from Brooklyn, SC and Lori. An' from Piscataway, we have
with us Don Michael Corleone and Flame Angel. And all the other associates, AppleOnYa, Don Cardi and Don Smitty and Turnbull; that came as far as from New Jersey, and New York and all the other territories of the country -- thank you.

How did we get here from the bar? I don't know. It was so -- fortunate -- so necessary ..."

good one

From Detroit, huh?

Maybe you should call yourself Don Zaluchi.

He came to NYC for a big meting; you should too.

We all had a great time, BTW.

Just got home and wanted to be the second to chime in about tonight's TERRIFIC dinner!! After enduring a drive through a horrific area in our Garden State, I managed to enjoy a beautiful restaurant, delicious food and just about the nicest gang of folks I'll ever get to meet.

Don Cardi really surprised me with a wonderful little gift...without going into detail, suffice to say that I'll no longer have an excuse to ask how something went in the novel.

Even got to talk about some of my favorite movies, something I can't do too often without fear of boring people to death.

The majority of us almost managed to convince Sicilian Babe that Fredo didn't know...maybe next time we can seal the argument for good. Trust me, I'm working on it.

Anyway, really swell evening ... so glad I made it!!

AppleOnYa

Very good Tony D.


It was a really nice time tonight. As always, the night just seems to fly by. Plaw did a really great job setting this up for us and his choice of appetizers was just perfect. Thank you my friend.

Don Malta is so much fun to hang around with. A really down to earth guy. This is a guy with so many talents and abilities. Someday we are all going to say " I knew him when."

Turnbull, well he's a good man. It's always an honor and a privaledge to be given the opportunity to have him share his unlimited knowledge of movies, real life mob and GF.
Does a great Jack Nickholson!

DMC and his beautiful fiance are such wonderful people. Always a smile on both of their faces. It just amazes me how much knowledge this young man has and how much he knows so much about The GF and real life mob stuff. This is a young man who is going to go very far in life.

Appleonya is very sweet. She kept me in awe with her ability to talk about any movie that was brought up, and her insight into many topics is just so enlightening. A pleasure to be around.


Don Smitty, well he's just a big teddy bear who's bark is bigger than his bite. A heart of gold. He wears his heart on his sleeve and has such a passion for all this gangster stuff.


Mr. Babe is such a gentleman, and a lot of fun to be around. A real happy go lucky guy that just goes with the flow. He fits right in with this crew and I was impressed how he held his own when to came to talking about The Godfather.

Sicilian Babe is just that, a real sweet babe! Tonight I noticed something in her. In my eyes she is the female Turnbull of our boards. Just a fountain of knowledge and such terrific understanding about the GF movies.


SC and Lori were missed by all.


It was such a pleasure to be able to spend an evening with all you guys and gals. Let's do it again soon.


Don Cardi

Just as long as nobody mentioned 'Laura'.

Geez, I've always hated that movie.

Apple

It's DMC posting under Flame, thank you for the nice words DC. I especially liked your comment about me being a 40 year old in a 20 year olds body lol, that is actually what I consider myself.

I do have to get to sleep to get up early for work tomorrow so just a quick rundown (will post more tomorrow)
Apple-nice to finally meet you, you are the same in life as you are on the boards
Plaw- great host, you truly are a great person
JG- very funny guy, had a great time
Turnbull- there has to be some law against having that much knowledge about everything in one mind lol You are very friendly and knowledgable
MR and Mrs Babe- you are a great couple and very fun to be around
Smitty- I was hoping for a dinner and a performance but no disappearing acts today lol Great guy with a great personality, but you gotta talk more lol
DC- you are a great friend, at least we got to talk a little more this time lol

We both had a wonderful time, I'm sure the real flame angel will post her thought tonight or tomorrow as well

edit: of course SC and Lori were missed

Ditto all the above! I love all y'all, you're such a great bunch of people that I consider special friends! SC & L were missed, though, of course.

Earlier today I was thinking (sorry! ) and realized that, I think it was just 2 years ago that any of us had ever met up! At least with me there. :p And I swear, it seems like I've known all y'all for years and years! It's quite refreshing to know that there are some really cool people out there!

PS - Um, DC, you gotta switch avatars - that belongs to DSC and it keeps confusing me! :p

PPS - I'm sorry there are no pics - I even brought my camera, but totally forgot about it cuz we were having such an engaging time!

I'm really sorry I missed the dinner.

Geoff, its been THREE years. Time flies, huh?

Jeeze, Don Cardi.....

Everyone gets complimented on their "talents and abilities", their "unlimited knowledge", their "sweetness and insight" their "hearts of gold" and their "terrific understanding."

And what do I get? A compliment for calling the place to make a reservation and making a "perfect choice of appetizers."

plaw was stepped over....send p to make the reservations, p will get the appetizers....Come' on, he's sshweet, he's insightful... :p