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Old 6th March 2009, 03:59 AM   #21
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Originally Posted by RomaRana
I don't have my books with me and I might be slightly off on the details, but the story behind Monk's notches was that he was a Sherriff (bouncer) in a wild bar in his younger days. Every time he whacked somebody and threw them out of the bar he put a notch on his club.

When he reached 39 marks he clubbed a random person to make it an even 40.

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Just looked at the wiki link it was for a even fifty.
Now that is very interesting a Jewish gangster with a big shtick.
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