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• 1 jake // Mar 4, 2010 at 9:23 am

  I think one of the main differences is that a ‘gangster’ is part of some sort of organization.

• 2 phil // Mar 4, 2010 at 9:30 am

  Thugs wear wool caps and are out by the waterfront guarding the abandoned warehouse. Gangsters pay off the D.A. and when they get married they have a tiger at the wedding.

• 3 jake // Mar 4, 2010 at 9:41 am

  I think Phil nailed it, man.

• 4 Tiffany! // Mar 4, 2010 at 10:02 am

  Gangsters get to have meetings in Italian restaurants, while the thugs have to wait outside for instructions on whose knees to break.

• 5 Cody // Mar 4, 2010 at 10:03 am

  Thugs collect and earn money for the the Gangsters.
  Thug: IRS
  Gangster: Federal Reserve

• 6 Chy // Mar 4, 2010 at 11:13 am

  Thug= Stallone in Rocky I
  Gangster = Stallone in Oscar

• 7 Joe // Mar 4, 2010 at 11:36 am

  Thugs are like http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=101818028

  or

  http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=102044559

  or

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGTuG0xT90Y

  I’m not sure what gangsters are like.

• 8 jenny // Mar 4, 2010 at 11:37 am

  Its all about the Benjamins Baby
  Gangsters have it thugs dont.

• 9 panasonicyouth // Mar 4, 2010 at 3:27 pm

  I really can’t beat Phil’s definition.

• 10 Chris // Mar 4, 2010 at 4:05 pm

  Gangster is a criminal who is a member of a crime organization, aka made man of the mafioso. A thug is just a criminal with no relation to organized crime.

  To elaborate on Phil’s definition:

  A thug is a kid from the hood who has no choice but to stick up a liquor store to pay for his baby’s diapers, gets caught by the police and thrown in city jail for grand larceny. A gangster “convinces” the liquor store to pay him weekly, using the money to produce a hollywood movie, gets caught by the IRS and gets throw in federal penitentiary for tax evasion.

• 11 MissBella // Mar 4, 2010 at 5:00 pm

  wow Phil owned this one.

• 12 April // Mar 5, 2010 at 11:21 am

  Phil wins but I think a gangster is the more organized and polished version of a thug. The real question would have to be what is the difference between a thug and a goon.

• 13 beth // Mar 5, 2010 at 2:42 pm

  Ooo…good call April.

  Maybe the difference is a goon can’t even really speak, he just grunts, whereas a thug, although shifty, can speak full sentences with a couple of “ya see’s” sprinkled throughout.

  Basically a goon is a thug that’s been hit in the face a few to many times and now serves solely and a warm body to throw and block blows.

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