Starting today, I intend to put up a series of writings I churned out a quarter of a century ago. Those were indeed the salad days, so that seems to be the most appropriate name for this section of the blog.
This is an extract from some stuff I wrote in 1987 - it was called "Conatus - to Con or not to Con "
What makes a con man's "yes", "no" and "maybe" unique is that they are interchangeable.
A con man's soul is the mirror of his eyes.
Thanks to George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty Four" was the International Year of the Con.
A con man's victim is torn, not frayed.
The only time you can afford to believe a con man is when he is asleep.
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their cons.
The classic epitaph for the con artist: "Here Lies".
The only reason why conning can be described as an art is that it requires craft......
A con man learns from the mistakes of other con men.
A con man never asks a question unless he already knows the answer.
A con man does not let his left hand know what his left hand is doing.
A con man's motto is "Con With The Wind" - the trouble is, you can never tell which way he'll blow....
The beauty of the con job is that it is always successful - when all else fails, a con man will invariably con himself.
Thomas Edison and every con artist have one thing in common: inventions.
The word 'con', in practice, operates as noun plural - each major con incorporates a number of lesser cons.
Among humans, the perfect con can only be pulled off by women; among animals - by dogs !
If you're deaf, you can't be conned.......
When one con artist writes about another, what do you think is happening ?
This is an extract from some stuff I wrote in 1987 - it was called "Conatus - to Con or not to Con "
What makes a con man's "yes", "no" and "maybe" unique is that they are interchangeable.
A con man's soul is the mirror of his eyes.
Thanks to George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty Four" was the International Year of the Con.
A con man's victim is torn, not frayed.
The only time you can afford to believe a con man is when he is asleep.
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their cons.
The classic epitaph for the con artist: "Here Lies".
The only reason why conning can be described as an art is that it requires craft......
A con man learns from the mistakes of other con men.
A con man never asks a question unless he already knows the answer.
A con man does not let his left hand know what his left hand is doing.
A con man's motto is "Con With The Wind" - the trouble is, you can never tell which way he'll blow....
The beauty of the con job is that it is always successful - when all else fails, a con man will invariably con himself.
Thomas Edison and every con artist have one thing in common: inventions.
The word 'con', in practice, operates as noun plural - each major con incorporates a number of lesser cons.
Among humans, the perfect con can only be pulled off by women; among animals - by dogs !
If you're deaf, you can't be conned.......
When one con artist writes about another, what do you think is happening ?
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