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.
