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This
theory was born at a party we attended at our friend TJ's house.
Hmm...actually, come to think of it, we were at Omar's place, in the
backyard of his apartment building. Most of our friends at this party
were either Cuban, Puerto Rican or Dominican (we was the only crackers
there...), or a mix of the three (we live in West
New York, NJ; what did you expect?).
Anyhow's,
we were all playing Dominos (oh, I forgot about the Ecuadorians, there
were some of them there too...), and when I say 'we' I mean 'they'
were playing, I was drinking. Somehow, amidst all of the Latin
machismo going on, the conversation turned to the origin of
Dominos, and someone ( I think it was Bubba, a Dominican) said that
Dominos were invented by Cubans (why he said Cubans and not
Dominicans, he being a Dominican, is still a mystery to me). Melissa,
in her infinite wisdom, was heard commenting, "If they were
invented by Cubans, wouldn't they be called 'Cubanos'? 'Dominos'
sounds as if they were invented by Dominicans...". Carlos (a
person of Puerto Rican/Cuban descent) agreed, "Yeah, that's
right! If they were invented by Cubans they would've been called 'Cubanos'!"
Well, that was pretty much the end of it, the others could not dispute
Melissa's uncontestable testimony. And that's the theory behind
Dominos.
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