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Newsday.Com ^
| 19 June, 2003
| Jimmy Breslin
Posted on 06/21/2003 6:08:08 PM PDT by Servant of the Nine
There has been only one libel trial of note in the borough of Brooklyn in the past two millennia. The reason is that it is impossible to libel people in Brooklyn.
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The libel trial was over a shooting on Second Avenue between 12th and 13th Streets in Manhattan. I think the bartender lived in Brooklyn, which is how the case got there.
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The morgue people arrived. The space was so narrow and the dead guy so big and fat that they had to tilt the body like a couch to get it out the front door.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: brooklyn; castellano; corruption; crime; gambino; meadeesposito
Jimmy Breslin in Dammon Runyan mode.
He must be back on his meds.
So9
To: Frank_Discussion; sinclair
BUMP
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posted on
06/21/2003 6:15:21 PM PDT
by
buffyt
(Can you say President Hillary, Mistress of Darkness? Me Neither!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
To: Servant of the Nine
Breslin is jerk, but I like his style of writing. Not Mickey Spillane, but kind of a junior version of that way of talking.
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posted on
06/21/2003 6:22:38 PM PDT
by
BCrago66
To: Servant of the Nine
"Castellano into the gutter on West 46th Street"
Yo, Jimmy- back on the meds-
it was *East* 46th Street at Spark's Pub
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