Thursday, October 23, 2008

Colorful Gang Nicknames

Some years ago, John Hodgman, the guy who plays the "PC" character in those cheeky "PC versus Mac" commercials, came out with a song titled "700 Hoboes," in which he recited to appropriately bluegrassy background music the names of, well, 700 hoboes. (You can learn more about that worthy endeavor here.)

It seems to me you could something similar with gang or mob nicknames. Take the ones listed in the Mongols indictment (see post below):

Doc
Lil Rubes
Largo
Chiques
Listo
Bengal
Lars
Bumper
Rascal
Hank
Big Joe
Monster
Bouncer
Chente
Al the Suit
Mandog
Stamper
Peligroso
Reaper
Wolf
Scorpio
Risky
L.A. Bull
Solo
Negro
Wicked
Secret
Target
White Boy Jon
Kiko
Big Dog
Bullet
Steaky
Villain
Monk
Grumpy
Socks
Kermit
Speedy
Radone
Yo-Yo
Face
Mouth
Wapo
Suicide
Swifty
Spider
Dago Bull
Sick Boy
House
Serial Sam
Moreno
Danger
Punk Rock
Weto
Violent Ed
Danger (again)
Leatherface

Okay, I may be a bit naive in these matters, but it seems to me that if I was engaged in any type of nefarious activity whatsoever, I would work darn hard to make sure I wasn't called something like "Serial Sam," "Sick Boy," or "Violent Ed," on the one hand, and "Kermit," "Socks," "Grumpy," or "Rascal" on the other.

2 comments:

  1. im talkin about BIG STACKS or LIL WHEEZY or LIL LOCO

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  2. i am with you i just got out of this shit i feel free but i still heir my old name and i hate it i had two names one is on here the other ant Suicide was one the other was nightmare it is some demon shit but it is the only one i let slide cus it better then Suicide i this name cus i never go down i keep comeing no matter what you do i have never been ko'ed guess its not never going to happen but still i got out cus my new wife means the world to me and i not puting her throw that i would put more but the foods ready so peace out if you want to chat look me up

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