# Dapper Don is Dead

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dapper-don-is-dead/113286>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 10, 2002, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dapper-don-is-dead/113286 "2002-06-10T18:24:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dapper-don-is-dead/113286/1 "2002-06-10T18:24:24Z")

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John Gotti died in prison today.

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**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dapper-don-is-dead/113286/2 "2002-06-10T18:34:56Z")

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Noooooooo!!!

Oh wait, you mean John Gotti the mobster. Carry on.

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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dapper-don-is-dead/113286/3 "2002-06-10T18:41:15Z")

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Mother of mercy . . . is this the end of Rico?

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**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dapper-don-is-dead/113286/4 "2002-06-10T18:42:42Z")

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Okay, I’ll bite.

As opposed to John Gotti, Scientist and Saint?

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**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dapper-don-is-dead/113286/5 "2002-06-10T18:45:18Z")

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Oh wait, that’s Hans Delbrook.

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**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dapper-don-is-dead/113286/6 "2002-06-10T19:56:46Z")

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Hey, he was one of my choices for the Celebrity Death Pool! Um, wheee, I guess.

Skerri, who was never into the whole Mafia mystique thing, anyways.

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**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dapper-don-is-dead/113286/7 "2002-06-10T23:08:26Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Eve \*  
> \*\*Mother of mercy . . . is this the end of Rico? \*\*

I don’t _think_ so!

😃

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**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dapper-don-is-dead/113286/8 "2002-06-11T03:37:26Z")

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“Turn out the lights, the party’s over…”

No, wait. That was _Dandy_ Don.

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**Author:** ![sidle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@sidle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sidle)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dapper-don-is-dead/113286/9 "2002-06-13T19:47:21Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Eve \*  
> \*\*Mother of mercy . . . is this the end of Rico? \*\*

As in R.I.C.O.?

I doubt it! You can shoot em, you can jail em, give em concrete shoes, but they always seem to keep breeding…