Telegram for Reef Traverse

[Raphael Saltwood]

https://www.old-time.com/commercials/1950%27s/Call%20For%20Philip%20Morris.html

He’s got one of those cylindrical hats, see...



Mike - when great minds work together, the analysis can only get better!


Mike - when great minds work together, the analysis can only get better!

It was Archie who referred to the kids in cylindrical hats, as a part of his pitch.

Typical come-on - start selling the fruits of success:

Dipple sez:
“even at 50 cents a head (which is admittedly a small cut, but all you’ll be doing is
sharing this opportunity with all your friends, since you are what later generations will
come to call an ‘influencer’, while I -who so generously offer this chance at riches
- will be working ever so much harder and risking ever so much more) - there are so many
of these camels out there in the Sonoran Desert, and they will be so easy to bring to
market and sell, that the money will roll in at a pace so fast and prolongedly continuous
that you will be able to move to the Ritz and order room service from [evocative detail]
young folks in cylindrical hats.”

Reef thinks:
“You’ll sell this pig in a poke to the biggest suckers in my circle of acquaintances,
poker buddies, drinking buddies, and random strangers. I will wrest or cajole some money
in advance from you because I know that not a single camel will be caught, moved or sold,
and I will leave town, as I’m already leaving the last place to avoid the same karma
there. Or if in fact you are actually selling these bunco camels on this train, Stray and
I might have to jump off between stops.”

Reef sez: “Ever thus in the world of affairs.” Smiles quizzically to convey gently
all that he’s not saying.

And - here to embed the cognitive leap you made into the scenario - I now think it quite likely Reef means to convey to Dipple,
hey, you may be laying it on a bit too thick

(dangers of extravagance)

Although commission-only jobs still lay it on similarly thick to this very day, in their
want ads!

https://orlando.craigslist.org/sls/d/orlando-work-from-home-and-make-1000/7213348021.html