> 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