Message #781293

[RL04]

 

Are you joking?

"Rizzo" is the 18th most common Italian surname.

I know you're pretty new and I don't want to jump all over you but just to explain, statements like what you said really hit a nerve with me.

When I went to grad school at Penn State, I was thought to have an uncommon "ethnic" name.
Ethnic to whom!?
When I pointed out to people that my "uncommon" last name took up about 20 or 30 columns in the Quenns phone book, they went "Oh..."