Muggings are allowed, just no narcotics and Alcohol. Chris is on a different plan than most AA people. 
Chris is the founder of Cosa Nostranonymous.
Really, it’s the same as Tony’s ridiculousness when he was talking to Melfi last week. He said “remember, I’m a strict Catholic”- meaning he was sure homosexuality was gross and a sin, but serial murder and infidelity weren’t a big deal.
The guy getting the gun was Edoardo Ballerini.
He’s from the U.S. but can speak fluent Italian. He’s been in a some indy stuff.
Exactly. Mafia once took out a prison hit on a guy who raped a nun because that was just not right. The fact they have been running Prostitutes and killing people for decades did not affect their high morale grounds in their point of view.
Hey Marley, I sorry to bother you this way, but you don’t have a public Email.
I just wanted to bring this to your attention.
Jersey Area Dopers: Should we plan a dopefest for May or June.
I figure quite a few NY & NJ posters will wander by this thread. I hope this doesn’t violate any rules.
Jim
Here he is. Not sure where you would recognize him from - 24, maybe, thought I’ve never seen that show. I recognized him from an episode of Charmed. (Sadly).
Ha ha! You watched Charmed!
(looking both ways before speaking) So do I
He reminded me of a young Max Perlich
And I don’t watch 24. 
What can I say - it seemed like Charmed was always on when nothing else was, so I got into it.
The scene where Murmur walked into a hotel lobby, passed money to an Hassidic Jew, and a black plastic box was passed to him. What was that?
I’m not saying the hatted Italian dude is an agent… just that they gave him a bit that would seem to mean we should remember him. Plus he seems much more competent and professional than most of the other flunkies. Especailly considering at what a low level he must be at.
The black box is a credit card reader of some sort. I suppose that’s where the numbers are stored that they’re selling to the Arabic guys.
I liked how they used the hotel run by the Hasidic Jews from one of the older seasons.
And it was an airport hotel - hence Murmur singing Elton John’s Daniel to himself. (“Daniel is travelling tonight on a plane…and I can see the red tail lights heading for Spain…”).
I love the subtle stuff like that in this show.
It was a credit card WRITER. “I can put those numbers on plastic for another 5 bills.” Assuming he had a source for the physical plastic and an imprinter/embosser that machine would encode the magnetic strip. Why two of them were bought during the show, I was confused on that.
As for getting the actual numbers, that was Martina. Depending on how closley Artie watches his credit card slips, she may have been taking some of them out, or making copies of them or snagging the daily printout for Benny and then getting it back before Artie noticed it.
Those were credit card skimmers. The crooked store employee runs the cards through this before or after running the card through the payment apparatus. It captures the information encoded on the magnetic stripe (name, number, expiration date, security code, etc.). Making actual cards would be another step- only necessary if the crooks wanted to use the cards in B&M stores. The Arabs said they didn’t need that- they’re internet only scammers.
I thought this was a pretty lame episode, except for Lauren Bacall getting decked, which cracked me up!
I also have to wonder if they keep changing who writes Christopher’s part - it’s like every week, he has a personality change. At least that’s how it strikes me.
A pox upon my husband for getting me hooked on this show…
Well this week I think a personality change might have been in order, what with his falling off the wagon and all.
This was the second week in a row that Tony used a version of the phrase “goes about in pity for himself.”
He said it about Artie this week, and Vito (or gays in general last week).
The Don & Mike radio show, always good for some homophobe stuff, has been running that clip of Tony saying to Melfi, “He’s a FAAA-aag!”
They were trying to isolate Tony calling Murmur retarded for today’s show.
Wasn’t the retarded remark about Little Carmine? Mr. Malaprop?
I think it was Little Carmine Tony was referring to when he said to Christopher “You know he’s borderline retarded”.
And Ben Kingsley was the best “special guest” in the history of the show. I also laughed when Chris told Lauren Bacall that he loved her in “The Haves and The Have Nots” (or some other butchering of the name).
I wish Tony would have taken the doggie carrier.
I noticed he was saying that an awful lot, especially for how much he seemed to dislike it in the hospital.
Probably nothing, but I just re-watched this weeks episode and last weeks. (I don’t remember which one it was in. I thought it was funny that in one scene (where Meadow tells Finn to put his pants in) Finn says “This is good shit” and in the next scene Vito says (in the antique store) “This is nice…this pot”
I know it’s nothing, I just thought the editing was funny.