[lbo-talk] Nicknamania

Guilherme groschke at luminousvoid.net
Wed Apr 16 21:52:00 PDT 2003


On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, andie nachgeborenen wrote:


> I read a book on the Chicago Outfit that said all those cool sounding
> names ("No Nose" and "Fingers" and "Mad Dog" and "Scarface" and the
> like) were given to the mobsters by newspaper men eager to sell copy.
> The mob guys themselves called each other "Tony" and "Al." Benjamin
> Siegel, the founder of Las Vegas, would kill you if you called him
> Buggsy. You could call him hum Benny, thogh, if you were his friend.
> Otherwise it was Mr Siegel. jks
>

and they started kissing each other's hands after watching 'the godfather'.

-gr



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