Greetings, my fellow port swillers!
I see where boxing legend Jake “Raging Bull” LaMotta has died at the age of 95.
One of Mrs. Robbo’s cousins married a niece of his. Ol’ Robbo attended the wedding (which was at a catering hall – a compromise, I suppose, since he is Jewish and she is Catholic) and the reception (which was at the niece’s parents’ house, I think) out on Lawn Gyland.
The two things I remember (this was better than 20 years ago) were a) that copies of the couple’s pre-nup were set out for the guests’ reading pleasure in the loo, and b) the presence of a large number of attendees who looked like extras from “Goodfellas”.
I do not recall that LaMotta himself was there, but then I was trying to stay well in the background the whole time, so I really wouldn’t have known.
The couple are still married, by the bye, so apparently the pre-nup was unnecessary.
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September 21, 2017 at 5:01 am
Victoria
I went to a wedding in New Jersey that was like that but for me it was like falling into an episode of The Sopranos.
September 21, 2017 at 12:41 pm
rbj1
Um, copies of the prenup? I only recently read my parents will, as I’m to be the executor of the estate. Somethings are for private viewing only.
September 21, 2017 at 11:22 pm
Robbo
Yep, SFAICR, it basically said, “Dear new son-in -law: You betray the family, you sleep with the fishes.”
Personably, I wouldn’t have dared cross the new missus cousin for all the tea in China.