While looking for Christmas gifts, today, I saw a jug of Weems & Plath
"liquid paraffin" lamp oil for the fakey Chinese lamps they sell at
amazing profits. It had been marked down from $129.95 to $108.95,
just in time for Christmas!

I started looking around the display, as if looking for something, and
when one of the nasty salesailors came over to enquire what I was
looking for I said, "Where's the drum?" That threw him, "What do you
mean, drum?" "For over $100 for some fuel oil doesn't it come in a
55-gallon drum?", I asked, innocently.

You just KNOW there's some idiots handing over $109 for a quart of
GENUINE Weems & Plath fuel oil to go in their cheap Chinese lamps,
don'tcha? I used to think the reason people with money had money was
because they were really smart. Waste Marine sure blew that theory
all to hell. They got a 10' plastic dingy out front for $1000!
"Wanna buy some oars to go with that, sir?"

(Aflack duck goes running out of store like he does Yogi Berra's
barber shop, violently shaking his head and making funny noises.)


Larry W4CSC

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