Do Italian restaurants have too many lights? Patrick McLellan posted a Christmas joke on Twitter on January 7, 2013:
 
“To avoid taking down my Christmas lights, I’m making my house into an Italian restaurant.”
 
The one-liner has been included in several quotation collections. “To avoid taking down my Christmas lights, I’m making my house into a Chinese restaurant” is a related saying.
 
   
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Patrick McLellan
‏@pmclellan
To avoid taking down my Christmas lights, I’m making my house into an Italian restaurant.
10:48 AM - 7 Jan 2013
 
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Johnny Bazooka!
‏@nthensome
To avoid taking down my Christmas lights, I’m making my house into an Italian restaurant.
#Christmas
2:22 PM - 8 Jan 2013
 
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Patrick McLellan @pmclellan
To avoid taking down my Christmas lights, I’m making my house into an Italian restaurant.
11:48 AM - 7 Jan 2013
   
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—Instead of taking down my Christmas lights, I am going to leave them up and open an Italian restaurant.
   
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Patrick McLellan @pmclellan
To avoid taking down my Christmas lights, I’m making my house into an Italian restaurant.
11:48 AM - 7 Jan 2013
 
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Joke Authority
‏@JokeAuthority
To avoid taking down my Christmas lights, I’m turning my house into an Italian restaurant.
10:14 AM - 29 Oct 2016