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It would be unrealistic for anyone in The Godfather to mention the mafia. People involved in a criminal conspiracy typically do not refer to it as such, for fai
by notacoward 7y ago
It would be unrealistic for anyone in The Godfather to mention the mafia. People involved in a criminal conspiracy typically do not refer to it as such, for fairly obvious reasons. You'll never see a memo with the words "Witness Tampering Plan" or "Quid Pro Quo" left out on a desk at such organizations either, for the same reasons. Such things are discussed via euphemism or outright code, even that as little and as privately as possible.
- fredgrott 7y agoyeah but than again in the 1970s we had creep...for a disgraced president's reelection campaign
- gowld 7y agoNope! It was CRP, named CREEP by opponents as part of the disgracing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_for_the_Re-Election_of_the_President https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_for_the_Re-Electio...
- FireBeyond 7y agoThere's a funny little nod to things like this in The Wire. Stringer Bell, high level drug dealer, is trying to organize a coalition of all the differing gangs. He's studying at business school to help this. Learns about Robert's Rules of Order, runs meetings that way. Until he looks over and sees one of his underlings with a yellow legal pad. "Yo, what is that?" "Robert's Rules say we gotta have minutes of the meeting, right? These are the minutes." "... Are you taking ... notes ... on a criminal fucking conspiracy?!? The fuck are you thinking, man?"