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I'm afraid I do find it a little comical. I don't associate it with Italian-Americans, oddly enough, nor do I think it seems terribly dated - but I do associate it a bit with the character on "Laverne and Shirley" (yes, I'm dated too!) and maybe that is why it seems weak or effete. Actually I'm not sure the Carmine character was effete but he was sort of a chumpy, soft-looking artsy guy with silly hair... and his name spoken, comically, in Laverne's accent has stuck with me.