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Twenty Years Ago Today: Dec. 16, 1985

 
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Leslie Cheswyck



Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile

PostPosted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 1:43 am    Post subject: Twenty Years Ago Today: Dec. 16, 1985 Reply with quote

December 16, 1985: The night John Gotti became a household name.



http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/anniversary/35th/n_8557/




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gotti http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Castellano
John Gotti makes his move. Whacks Paul Castellano. The beginning of the decline, if not the end, of the old New York Mob.


I remember hearing the news of it on the car radio and thinking "They still do that? It's like right out of the movies."
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Ya-ta Boy



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994

PostPosted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 6:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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a household name


You do a lot more slumming than most people, don't you?
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Leslie Cheswyck



Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile

PostPosted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 7:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You are petty, Ya-ta Bore. Very petty.
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Ya-ta Boy



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PostPosted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 7:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm surprised you even know how to spell 'petty'. That's a step up for you. Have you been brushing up on your English?
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Leslie Cheswyck



Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile

PostPosted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 7:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ya-ta Boy wrote:
I'm surprised you even know how to spell 'petty'. That's a step up for you. Have you been brushing up on your English?


You could have made a relevant reply to the original post. Instead you choose to make yet another mindless jab.

I've noticed often, Yata, when someone posts something, you often don't even bother to disagree with them; you just hurl an insult. No substance. You have to be the absolute most mindless zombie on the whole board. A real junk poster.
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Ya-ta Boy



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 8:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ouch! Coming from someone who never has a real opinion, that really hurts. I think I'll crawl off somewhere and cry myself to sleep.
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Leslie Cheswyck



Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile

PostPosted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 9:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ya-ta Boy wrote:
Ouch! Coming from someone who never has a real opinion, that really hurts. I think I'll crawl off somewhere and cry myself to sleep.


I think you have a personal vendetta. What else can explain your behavior on this thread?

As for me having 'no real opinion', that's just absurd.

If you want to disagree with me, that's fine. If you want to disagree with me and insult me, I guess that's OK too. But when you insult someone out of the blue, it just makes you look bad.
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bigverne



Joined: 12 May 2004

PostPosted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 9:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A middle aged man behaving like a high school kid. Very sad.
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Eunoia



Joined: 06 Jul 2003
Location: In a seedy karakoe bar by the banks of the mighty Bosphorus

PostPosted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 6:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

bigverne wrote:
A middle aged man behaving like a high school kid. Very sad.



Which one are you talking about: Gotti, Cheswyck, or Ya-Ta?
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bucheon bum



Joined: 16 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 8:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Leslie Cheswyck wrote:
Ya-ta Boy wrote:
Ouch! Coming from someone who never has a real opinion, that really hurts. I think I'll crawl off somewhere and cry myself to sleep.


I think you have a personal vendetta. What else can explain your behavior on this thread?

As for me having 'no real opinion', that's just absurd.

If you want to disagree with me, that's fine. If you want to disagree with me and insult me, I guess that's OK too. But when you insult someone out of the blue, it just makes you look bad.


Yes sir, that is most certainly true.

Ya-Ta, give it a rest.

as for the original subject, I'm 100% ignorant about the Gotti saga. well besides knowing he was a mafia boss that's now in jail.
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Leslie Cheswyck



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Location: University of Western Chile

PostPosted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 11:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks, BB. Coming from someone with whom I often disagree (and to whom I have thrown a few nasty barbs myself) that means a lot.

Gotti died in June 2002. Throat cancer.

Gotti enjoyed his celebrity too much. And that was his downfall. He was the compete opposite of Carlo Gambino, who operated quietly and shunned publicity. Gambino would have taken him out for sure, as he did when he whacked Joseph Colombo.
Joseph Colombo
http://www.murderinc.com/fam/colm.html
http://www.freeinfosociety.com/site.php?postnum=102
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Colombo gained national attention by picketing through Columbus Circle in New York City to gain support for all Italian-Americans in fighting the stereotype of mob involvement. Problem was, he was a Mafia Don, and even though some people considered him a hero for what he was doing, the other mob bosses thought he was an idiot, including Gambino whose life was saved by Colombo a few years earlier.
Ungrateful baztard, Gambino. But business is business, right?



Carlo Gambino

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambino

http://www.murderinc.com/fam/gamb.html
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EFLtrainer



Joined: 04 May 2005

PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 9:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Don't intend to get drawn in, but wasn't I recently reading comemnts by you, ya-ta, to the effect that you don't go around trolling after people? Initiating insults, that sort of thing?
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Roch



Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 1:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ya-ta Boy wrote:
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a household name



You do a lot more slumming than most people, don't you?


One should agree that this is a factual statement given the poster's posting history, etc..

Sorry, eh, I calls it likes I sees it (my Newfie buddy from Argentia, Nfld., taught me how to spell and thinks this way, eh).

Where's the Screech? Got any Black Horse kickin' around?

Life sucks in Marblehead without the Newfie brew or knock-off mollasses rum stuff in the room.
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Leslie Cheswyck



Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile

PostPosted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 3:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This just in:

Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante Dies in Prison
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051220/ap_on_re_us/obit_gigante


http://www.nndb.com/people/563/000027482/
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