Today it was announced that Netflix was pulling a HUGE number of movies and other media from their online catalog. I guess they do this all the time. BECAUSE THE ALGORITHM or something... Anyway, I was deeply saddened to learn that one of the titles that got axed was Gangs of New York. I really wanted to watch it again. But there isn't any time because work volume will suddenly J-Curve this week like a hockey stick as we endeavour to rebuild our HPC cluster in 3 days. As a result, I missed any sort of viewing opportunity. However, I did get an opportunity to watch Netflix's trailer for the movie and I was delighted to see that it featured the scene just before the first big "Gang Fight" when all the gangs allied with the Dead Rabbits got to introduce themselves. It's such a wonderful part because all of the gang names are so horribly stupid by any of today's standards.
For posterity, here's an exhaustive listing from Wikipedia:
- Batavia Street Gang
- Baxter Street Dudes
- Bowe Brothers
- Bowery Boys
- Car Barn Gang
- Charlton Street Gang
- Corcoran's Roosters
- Daybreak Boys
- Dead Rabbits
- Dutch Mob
- Eastman Gang
- Five Points Gang
- Forty Thieves
- Gas House Gang
- Gopher Gang
- Grady Gang
- Hell's Kitchen Gang
- Hook Gang
- Hudson Dusters
- Humpty Jackson Gang
- Italian Dave Gang
- Jimmy Curley Gang
- Lenox Avenue Gang
- Leslie Gang
- Little Auggies
- Mandelbaum Gang
- Marginals
- Molasses Gang
- Nineteenth Street Gang
- Pansies
- Patsy Conroy Gang
- Potashes
- Slaughter House Gang
- Squab Wheelman Gang
- Swamp Angels
- Tenth Avenue Gang
- Tub of Blood Bunch
- Walsh Gang
- White Hand Gang
- Whyos Gang
- Yakey Yakes
- Yiddish Black Hand
Woot! Woot! Here Yee! Next up: Yakey Yakes vs the Tub of Blood Bunch...
Ha ha! So fucking stupid.
