May 14, 2006

scitz the kat strikes


 quondam correspondent
sandwitchman: the elf of less hourdom 

at max sprach 

has a dpression era pastiche 

 that creeps me out 

the chaps topes 
seem to be too few 
and too  proto morphic ...... 


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THE FUNDAMENTALS ARE SOUND
by the Sandwichman

It's Friday in Tokyo and the Nikkei is down 2.4% 
as the Yen rises to a 8-month high against the Dollar.

 Gold hit a 26-year high of $728 an ounce
 before closing at $721.50 in New York, 
while the Dow Jones Industrial Average 
"plunged" 142 points on Thursday. 


It's time for the Sandwichman to make a prediction: 


The stock market will not crash on Friday!

However, just in case it does,
 below the jump is an improbable story,
 told completely in headlines, 
about a poor sandwich-man 
who found a fortune in stock certificates 
in a snow bank on Wall Street.





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'Sandwich Man' Restores $45,000
To Brokers but Goes Unrewarded
-----------
$1-a-Day Sign Carrier Finds Wallet
 in Snow Outside Stock 
Exchange and Gives It to Policeman
 -- Owners of Stock 
Think Recompense, if Any,
 Is Up to Surety Company.
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$1-A-DAY MAN FINDS
$45,000 IN STOCKS
-----------
Wouldn’t Keep Real Money Either.
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Once Found $60 at Dance.



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REWARDS SHOWER
ON ‘SANDWICH’ MAN
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Finder of $45,000 Securities
Gets $105 Cash and Promise
of Clothing and Job.
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WEEPS AT PRESENTATION
-----------
Surety Concern Also Will Give
Him $20 for Next 10 Weeks
-- Banker Among Donors.
-----------
Saw 'Sandwich" Man in Gale.
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Surety Concern to Give $275.
-----------
Gets $25 More.



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FINDER OF $42,000 
'IN WALL ST.' NOW
-----------
' Sandwich' Man Lays 
Aside His Boards to Take Job
 as a Broker's Messenger.
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EATS WITH NEW EMPLOYER

-----------
Trips to Haberdashery and a

Barber Shop Complete His
Busy Day Downtown.
-----------
Reports on New Job Today.
-----------
More Gifts Are Sent in.



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'SANDWICH MAN' HELD 
IN PSYCHOPATHIC WARD
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After 'Look' at Him, 
One Man Drops Dead



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LUCK BRINGS WOE
TO 'SANDWICH MAN'

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Finder of $45,000, 
Glorified for
Honesty, Is Deranged by 
Sudden Affluence.

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RICHER DIET MAY BE CAUSE
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Doctors Hope for Recovery of 
Former Derelict Whose ‘Look’
Killed an Associate




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THE TOO IMPROBABLE.



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SANDWICH MAN UNCHANGED
Tests on Greges at Bellevue Not
Yet Completed.



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DELUSIONS ENDED FOR 
SANDWICH MAN
-----------
Finder of $45,000, Who Rose
to Sudden Riches and Fame,
Leaves Bellevue Today.
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BUT DOCTORS ADVISE REST
-----------
Frank Greges, However, Says He
Is ‘Full of Pep’ and Wants 
to Get Back to Job



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‘SANDWICH MAN'
GOES HOME IN TAXI
----------
He Leaves Bellevue to 'Take It
Easy' on Rewards for His
Return of Securities.
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PHYSICIAN GIVES HIM $5
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With This ‘Change’ in Pocket,
He Poses for Photographers,
Then Rides Off on $1.20 Trip



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‘SANDWICH MAN' 
RETURNS TO BEAT
----------
Greges Carries Boards Once
More After Touch of Fame
for Restoring $45,000.
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PHILOSOPHICAL ABOUT IT
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Has ‘Maybe a Couple Hundred
Dollars’ of His Rewards for 
Honesty -- Snubs Farm Work

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pink stinger 


story contains the sort of anti alger bathos ending 
so beloved of 30's yellow journalism

and in revival
by
woodstock elfery 

u can take the lump out of the lumpin brothers and sisters 

but you can't take the lumpin out of the lump 

then again i'm a silk hat fan any hooooo

my man godfrey and all that 

beside 
f these raggedy andy types 
if they can't take
 an elaborate practical joke

 got a gripe???

  hard luck

 what's hard luck
   but a loafers alibi 

hell fire
 lumps like him
 oughta wake up each morning 
toss yesterdays sports sectionover their head
and pray to 
 the  great god mercury
we silkees 
got  enough sandwitch boards 
                      to hang one on  each of  em



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talk about killer looks
howz 'bout a killer read

 doc E-trode sez


" perhaps our 
sandy here
 needs to be 
stowed away 
 in a nut back
          himself for a  brief refreshing spell


or is  it just 
r crumble type 

  pseudo scitz 

 merely 
a   clever
         brother

              to the real deal 

Posted by pinky at May 14, 2006 05:21 AM