Telegram for Reef Traverse

[Mike Jing]

That's what I was leaning towards at the beginning, as it could certainly
be considered provocative to imply that those words were too extravagant
for its own good.  Thank you very much for your help.


On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 5:22 AM Raphael Saltwood <PlainMrBotanyB at outlook.com>
wrote:

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> https://www.old-time.com/commercials/1950%27s/Call%20For%20Philip%20Morris.html
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> He’s got one of those cylindrical hats, see...
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> Mike - when great minds work together, the analysis can only get better!
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> Mike - when great minds work together, the analysis can only get better!
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> It was Archie who referred to the kids in cylindrical hats, as a part of
> his pitch.
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> 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)
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> Although commission-only jobs still lay it on similarly thick to this very
> day, in their
> want ads!
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> https://orlando.craigslist.org/sls/d/orlando-work-from-home-and-make-1000/7213348021.html
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