The Joker’s not a mobster? Since when?
“'ere, Vinnie. This **Miller **fellah looks about a size 11. Fetch the cement.”
Only a mobster could be in “Construction” or “Removals” or “Insurance” and make it sound sinister. Errm, except for the “Insurance”, that’s always sinister…
Since always. He’s not a made made, he’s a psycho. I’ll concede that he generally has henchmen, but in no sense is he a part of the Mafia.
Good point about Bugsy, but that one was designed to make money after it was cleaned. Generally, a little loss is acceptable in laundering.
Only mobsters drive exactly the speed limit in perfectly pristine cars.
Mobsters are the only people under 60 who still traditionally wear hats… and take them off while talking to a lady. (Caps are not hats)
Maybe in the comics, but the OP said “TV or movies”, and in the Batman movie, he’s a lieutenant for Jack Palance’s mob boss Grissom. I don’t know if the old TV series or The Batman animated series go into his origins, but he’s also a mob buttonman in Batman - The Animated Series, so that’s 2/4 for “Mobster”. Sure, he’s a psycho now - a psycho mobster.
Hey, Slithy Tove:
Apropos of nothing, I had a dream the other night about a mythical witch who would seek out and terrorize people who tried to cheat on their spouses. The witch’s name was “Slithy Tove.” Where does the phrase come from? I’m not sure why my brain conjured it up in that context.
(Sorry for the hijack, but I had to ask. 
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Lewis Carroll died in vain!
Gloat not, Slithy Tove, nor despair of thine obscurity in the eyes of the posteratti, for I myself have sqawked out far, far greater ignorances in many posts myself. The ultimate indiginity: for being so consistently in error that one is put on another’s ignore list on a message board dedicated to the fight against ignorance!
Sez you.