What the hell does "La Costra Nostra" mean?

[flight]

""our own thing." A term used by Italians for the Mafia.
Flight

On 19 Nov 1995, Dana C. Lee wrote:

> What does that phrase from Wu-Gambinos mean?? I think it's
> Italian for something, but what?
>
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[Dana C. Lee]

[kari orr]

In article <48q9op$a...@trst.cca.vu.nl>, jh...@econ.vu.nl says:
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italian, for our thing.

kari orr
house of phat beats

[jh...@econ.vu.nl]

I think what Raekwon wanted to say is "cosa nostra" which is italian
mafia, it just didn't come out of his goldcapped mouth right

[Tone]

Dana C. Lee (dan...@umich.edu) wrote:
: What does that phrase from Wu-Gambinos mean?? I think it's

: Italian for something, but what?

Literally, it means "Our Scar," must I think it's just Rae fuckin wit ya.
"La Cosa Nostra" is the name of the Italian Mafia, meaning "Our Thing."
Wu-Gambinos is just the Shaolin version of the mafia. geddit?
peace
Tone

[Richard Webster Wright]

La Cosa Nostra... Italian mafia. I took Spanish; this looks a
lot like Nuestra Cosa, literally, "Our Thing".
--
Richard - the Mathematician
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[Morten Hoff]

Isn't the correct spelling "cosa nostra" ?
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On Sat, 18 Nov 1995, flight wrote:

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> ""our own thing." A term used by Italians for the Mafia.
> Flight
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> On 19 Nov 1995, Dana C. Lee wrote:
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> > What does that phrase from Wu-Gambinos mean?? I think it's
> > Italian for something, but what?
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[sehmuel]

Yeah that gold can be a reak bitch....

[Manuel Suarez]

sehmuel <sa...@netpower.no> wrote:

>Yeah that gold can be a reak bitch....

It means "our thing" which was the name of a drug ring in the 1930's

[Dee Phunk]

:It means "our thing" which was the name of a drug ring in the 1930's

Yeah...and to correct you guys the correct spelling is La Cosa
Nostra. I don't know why Rae yelled "costra".
It was funny, because I had just finished listening to "Wu Gambinos"
when we had to go the school library for freshman orientation class. They
gave us some ditto on how the college library works. The ditto gave an
example and used organized crime as an example an right there it said La
Cosa Nostra. I was like "Oh shit...Raekwon just said that!"

[dp]

[matt]

> :It means "our thing" which was the name of a drug ring in the 1930's

Yeah, "our thing" in Italian. The cosa nostra was a lot like the mafia,
only it was born further north than Sicily (there are mafias with
different names all over the place in "the Old Country"). It probably
still exists there somewhere, only the Mafia gets a lot more publicity.
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[Kyler Jackson]

Cat in da Hat (ro...@westminster.ac.uk) wrote:
: Manuel Suarez (ma...@mind.net) wrote:
: : sehmuel <sa...@netpower.no> wrote:

: : >Yeah that gold can be a reak bitch....

: : It means "our thing" which was the name of a drug ring in the 1930's

It doesn't mean Jack in Spanish. Our thing in la cosa nuestra. This is
either latin or an inside joke.

: or is that "Cosa Nostra" ??

: Ignorant in England,

: ORI.

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[Cat in da Hat]

Manuel Suarez (ma...@mind.net) wrote:
: sehmuel <sa...@netpower.no> wrote:

: >Yeah that gold can be a reak bitch....

: It means "our thing" which was the name of a drug ring in the 1930's

or is that "Cosa Nostra" ??