<DIV>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 "Max B. Sawicky" <sawicky@bellatlantic.net> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">I think we can say "Chemical Don," or if you like, "Ghengis Don." mbs -----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-admin@lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-admin@lbo-talk.org]On Behalf Of loupaulsen@attbi.com Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 5:20 PM To: lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org Subject: [lbo-talk] Nicknamania Remember 'chemical Ali'? Remember how the media always talked about how he was 'commonly known in Iraq as chemical Ali'? Were we supposed to really believe this? People walked down the street in Basra: "Hey, there's chemical Ali! YO! CHEMICAL ALI! WAZZUUUP!" I started wondering if anyone in Iraq had ever referred to the guy as 'chemical Ali' at all. I did a dejanews search and found only one reference to 'chemical Ali' before 1998. However, it was in a kurdish USENET group, so it had some authenticity. My conclusion is that Kurdish forces started calling him that and then this year the usage exploded into the western media. Today, however, we get this: _ U.S. special forces raided the Baghdad home of microbiologist Rihab Taha, nicknamed "Dr. Germ," who ran Iraq's secret biological laboratory. Troops brought out boxes of documents and three men with their hands raised. Taha's whereabouts weren't immediately known. - - - - Now, it's just going too far: DAFNA LINZER, Associated Press Writer She is called "Dr. Germ," and he is known as the "Missile Man." After meeting at a New York seminar hosted by U.N. weapons inspectors in the early 1990s, Dr. Rihab Taha and Amer Rashid became the power couple of Iraq (news - web sites)'s clandestine weapons program. - - - - Should we fight fire with fire? What would you like to call Bush? Rumsfeld? Tommy Franks? LP ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk _______________ ____________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <hr size=1>Do you Yahoo!? <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/search/mailsig/*http://search.yahoo.com">The New Yahoo! Search</a> - Faster. Easier. Bingo.