I noticed on the show they don't really deal much in nicknames except for Paulie Walnuts, does anyone else even have a nickname? How did Paulie get his nickname? "I'll crack your head like a fuckin' walnut!"?


Oh, and a spinoff idea here...
Let's say Tony was whacked and Paulie becomes boss. "The Walnuts" Every made guy has to get wings in his hair from now on.

Supposedly he hijacked a truck (which he thought had electronic equipment) full of walnuts.

That's funny. It would have been funnier if it had a reference to his nutsack. Not as good as Big Pussy's though.

There's no truth to the rumor he got it from sleeping with Lucy Mancini though.

Big Pussy got his nickname because he used to be a cat burglar, silly girl.

I think using my imagination is a lot more exciting.

Maybe I should try slithering through a window.

Paulie "Walnuts"
"Big Pussy"
"Little Pussy"
Bobby "Baccala"
"Little" Carmine
Johnny "Sac"
Uncle "June"
"Coco"
Vito "Spat"

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Vito "Spat"



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Vito spat? Mean people suck. Nice people swallow.

That reminds me of a joke, Beth. If a stork brings babies, what does a swallow bring?

No babies!!!

EEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWW!!!!!

And this reaction from a man who insists on sharing bodily functions with the world, when the world would really be MUCH happier savoring a bit of mystery.

not much on that list that's anything like Joey The Clown, or Chicken Man, The Chin, etc.

Sil, Chris, Tony, Ralph, Richie, Jackie Aprile, and some others didn't have nicknames.

Let's make some up

Sil "The Thrill" Dante
Chrissy "Needles" Moltisanti
Tony "Nutjob" Soprano
Ralph "The Mouth" Cifaretto
Corrado "The Tongue" Soprano

Excellent

Paulie got his nickname from getting out of the army via a section 8- being crazy, thus "walnuts."

how do you know that sopranorleone? about paulie?

Hey Don_Sanford, welcome to the boards.

Is that like Sanford and Son?

Dummy.

Oh man, I gotta get that as an avatar.

Don Fred: "Do you expect me to let you go, do you expect me to let you take my dummy from me?"

I am pretty sure I got that off of the HBO website, under character bios.


Welcome to the boards!

From the HBO website:

"...I was born, grew up, spent a few years in the army, a few more in the can and here I am, a half o' wise guy."

Peter Paul Gualtieri, arguably the most meticulously coiffed and manicured capo in the Soprano crew, was something of a child prodigy. He first displayed the skills he'd utilize in his chosen profession at the tender age of nine: while other kids were dreaming of wielding a bat like the Mick, Paulie was deploying one on a schoolmate's skull. In and out of juvenile correctional facilities for the next several years, Paulie eventually dropped out of school altogether; at seventeen, he became an enforcer for Johnny Boy Soprano. Thereafter his movement up the ranks was steady, albeit punctuated by the occasional prison stretch and an army hitch abbreviated by a Section 8.