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  1. Webby

    Webby F1 Veteran

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    #1 Webby, Sep 28, 2005
    I've just noticed the word in lots of usernames ... sorry if this is a repost, I did search.
     
  2. jknight

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    #2 jknight, Sep 28, 2005
    A fan.
     
  3. Gimme Fuel

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    #3 Gimme Fuel, Sep 28, 2005
    Yepp, and maybe you've heard some people have said "real tifosi" - real fan ;);)
     
  4. tuttebenne

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    #4 tuttebenne, Sep 28, 2005
    Yeah. Its used a lot to refer to the passionate Ferrari fans in Italy.
     
  5. Dubai Vol

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    #5 Dubai Vol, Sep 28, 2005
    Literally, in Italian, it means "crazy people", or if you prefer, "fanatics." "Tifosi" is the plural of "tifoso," so any one person is a tifoso, a group of crazy people are tifosi. The word has come to be applied to Ferrari fans: as a group they are tifosi, as individuals each is a tifoso.

    My Italian is almost non-existent, but that much I am pretty confident about.

    For the record i am a Vol fanatic, hence the screen name :)
     
  6. Cavallini

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    #6 Cavallini, Sep 28, 2005
    I think he/she means what does Tifosi literally mean, the denotation.

    I'd like to know myself. Calling all Tifosi, calling all Tifosi!
     
  7. Cavallini

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    #7 Cavallini, Sep 28, 2005

    Thanks Vol Tifosi. I posted my question just before you answered it. LOL.
     
  8. Dubai Vol

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    #8 Dubai Vol, Sep 28, 2005
    Always glad to help. GO BIG ORANGE!
     
  9. Webby

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    #9 Webby, Sep 28, 2005
    he/she haha. I'm a guy. Actually was looking for any definition, "crazy people" or just "fan" is fine. Thanks guys.
     
  10. ferrari4evr1

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    #10 ferrari4evr1, Sep 28, 2005
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  11. bill308

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    #11 bill308, Sep 28, 2005
    OK, I'll bite. What's Vol?

    Bill
     
  12. snj5

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    #12 snj5, Sep 28, 2005
    I always heard 'Tifoso' came to mean a 'crazed' person like one got with typhoid fever. The old definition of tifoso meant someone with typhoid fever.
    The word gradually lost the original meaning as it was used in the vernacular to mean a crazed person and grew into the meaning we know today.
     
  13. robert_c

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    #13 robert_c, Sep 28, 2005
    A college football team. The Tennesee Volunteers. They just had a lucky win over LSU.
     
  14. jaturon

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    #14 jaturon, Sep 29, 2005
    Ferraristi, is it Ferraristo in plural?
    As it seems tifoso is singular and tifosi is plural!
     
  15. judge4re

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    #15 judge4re, Sep 29, 2005
    Zane, the i is plural, o is singular.

    Tifoso actually means something like "typhoid suffering", or loosely translated "crazy sick".
     
  16. kito

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    #16 kito, Sep 29, 2005
    Seriously, wtf was that all about? I was at the game and ended up leaving because I couldn't sit there and watch that BS.

    Anyway, I hadn't known what Tifosi meant either and I'm glad someone asked.
     
  17. jaturon

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    #17 jaturon, Sep 29, 2005
    Cheers, Ferraristo!
     
  18. Cavallino_Rampante

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    #18 Cavallino_Rampante, Sep 29, 2005
    in that case it would be ferrarista ;)
     
  19. dm_n_stuff

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    #19 dm_n_stuff, Sep 29, 2005
  20. BT

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    #20 BT, Sep 29, 2005
    Don't know if you are a tiger fan or some other SEC fan, but the Vols were not lucky. They were just a little better than the LSU TEAM the other night. Tough loss though. I was curious as to how LSU could be ranked #3 with one game that required a 28 point fourth quarter to win at ASU. Anyway, I am not a Tifosi, but consider myself a Ferraristi, and definitely a Cane.
    BT
     
  21. Huskerbill

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    #21 Huskerbill, Sep 29, 2005
    Bo Pelini will not be at LSU long after his wonderful defensive coaching abilities he has shown. If you look at some of the blowouts this guy has coached at NU, OU, and now LSU, you wonder how the heck this classless jerk is still in the mix??

    Anyway, sorry about the hijack.

    I am a Husker tifosi!!!
     
  22. riverflyer

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    #22 riverflyer, Sep 29, 2005
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    Here is a great example of tifosi. This shed is along coast hiway one, out in the boonies of south Mendocino county. Someday I'll stop and get the story.
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