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Re: Mobsters and gangsters nicknames
[Re: Beanshooter]
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10/22/17 07:24 PM
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Bill Cutolo was also called "Billy Fingers" after losing a finger and mutilating the other while working in a butcher shop. Cutolo also had the nickname "Wild Bill" after beating a man with a baseball bat. He also dressed like a cowboy sometimes.
-I shot him a coupla' times. -What's a couple? -Hmm, more than a couple... Really I don't know the exact amount, maybe I shot him 10 times, 12 times? -Maybe fifteen? -Hmm, it could've been fifteen...
-Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso
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Re: Mobsters and gangsters nicknames
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10/23/17 01:36 PM
10/23/17 01:36 PM
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Gaspipe, nobody ever addressed him as such, not in his face.
-I shot him a coupla' times. -What's a couple? -Hmm, more than a couple... Really I don't know the exact amount, maybe I shot him 10 times, 12 times? -Maybe fifteen? -Hmm, it could've been fifteen...
-Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso
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Re: Mobsters and gangsters nicknames
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10/23/17 06:01 PM
10/23/17 06:01 PM
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His pop's nickname he says in the book. His pop used a gas pipe to fight other guys and held into it like to strengthen the punch, the grip.
-I shot him a coupla' times. -What's a couple? -Hmm, more than a couple... Really I don't know the exact amount, maybe I shot him 10 times, 12 times? -Maybe fifteen? -Hmm, it could've been fifteen...
-Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso
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Re: Mobsters and gangsters nicknames
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10/23/17 11:43 PM
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I've always wondered if the person was actually addressed by their mob ' moniker', to their face.
" Hey Gaspipe, can we chat"
"What's up,(Sonny) Red" Etc..
Didn't Fat Tony Salerno complain that some youngster called him Fat Tony to his face. Lol I guess it all depends if they viewed their nickname favorable or not.Imagine if one didn't like it and their nickname surfaces in a taped conversation by law enforcement....LOL In his biography of Capone, John Kobler notes that the nicknames(at least in that era) were made up by newspaper reporters to titillate their readers. As he put it, mobsters didn't go around greeting each other with, "Yo,Three Fingers..." or "Wassup, Clutching Hand..." I think today, fellow mobsters make up the nicknames, but they use them among themselves, not face to face with the nickname holders.
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu, E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu... E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
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Re: Mobsters and gangsters nicknames
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10/25/17 05:32 AM
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Re: Mobsters and gangsters nicknames
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10/25/17 05:18 PM
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Joe Massino had several nicknames: -'Joe Wagons', as he started out as a lunch wagon operator under Rusty Rastelli -'Big Joey' for his obesity -'The Ear', as he wanted others to use their ears when referring to him, similar to how mobsters pointed to their chins in reference to Vinny Chin -'The Last Don', as he was the last full-fledged mob boss on the streets whom the feds didn't pinch while the other bosses were in the can in the 1990s. i dont know if Massino started doing the ear thing himself and making it a mandate. i think they started pulling on ear lobe or pulling their ears to refer to him, because he was notorious for "having his ear to the street" - always finding out about every penny his soldiers made and every move they made...a micromanager. i get the feeling that he wasnt well liked, before he ratted. he seemed greedy as fuck. no made guy could borrow any money from anyone else in the tamily except from him...still kept a personal, active loanshark book when he was boss
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