[UA] [OT] More fun with name generators...
Gregory Paul Stolze
holycrow at mindspring.com
Mon Dec 25 08:22:01 PST 2000
At 03:37 PM 12/24/2000 GMT, you wrote:
>
>> Ken Hite gets "The Mannequin," my wife gets "The Bishop" and I'm stuck with
>> "Sweet Nostrils"? That's it. I'm entering the Federal nickname exchange
>> program.
>
>"Fowget about it!"
>
>> Who still thinks the worst real-life mob nickname he ever heard was "The
>> Check Casher."
>
>He apparently did. "Better make sure your checks don't bounce, pops, or the
>CHECH CHASHER's gonna have to _bounce_ you! Hey... hey... pops, stop that
>laughin'! One of these days you're gonna _die_ laughin'!"
Sadly, it wasn't any kind of "He'll cash your check!" double-entendre. He
was this guy who ran a stolen-check laundring scheme. Hence, "the
check-casher."
And if you think about it, he probably had a lot more actual VALUE to the
mob than any hit man...
-G.
Critics are like medical students: they always think a writer is suffering
from the very disease they happen to be studying at the time.
-Milorad Pavic
http://www.waylay.com
http://www.thehungersite.com/index.html
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