Pose....You may have meant it as a good humored joke but in reallity, it was the truth...many people that came from Italy way back then had it that way T.O.N.Y. meaning to NY for the non English speaking Italian men...the slang "WOP" as referred to Italians was when the imigrants that didn't have papers in order were placed a sticker on their chest W.O.P. meaning
"WITH OUT PAPERS" this is where the slang WOP came from.....a litle bit of history, or better know as "NICKEL KNOWLEDGE" hehehe
Tony Rome