"I didn't think till after..."

I forgot -

So that one (Italian) post-doc I was talking with mentioned somehow that his father is his hero, since he has no hands and manages to do everything.

His father, he said, was playing with friends as a kid, and they unearthed an unexploded bomb from WWII, and it went off, and he ended up losing his hands.

His dad paints and hikes and drives and types and everything, though, and is not sorry for himself at all.

I didn't think till after of that one joke -

Q: How do you shut an Italian up?

A: Cut off his hands.