Discussion»Questions»Human Behavior» In YOUR superbrainy objective opinion who's the greatest CON ARTIST/SCAMMER/SNAKE OIL SALESPERSPERSON in history so far? Why d'ya think so?
Jim Moran is perhaps the only man alive who customarily keeps a drum, usually a native one he picked up is some jungle, in every one of the five bathrooms in his ten-room apartment. They simply are there in the Johns, and they are symbolic – but not because Moran is a collector of drums; he is a collector of many other things, including funny hats and strange costumes, all the back issues of the National Geographic, books on arcane subjects, recherché statuary and painting, and Oriental rugs. The drums are symbolic because Moran, in addition to being a superb cook, a kite-flier, an inventor, the father of an ostrich, a man who not only say, but created, a purple cow and changed horses in midstream, sold an icebox to an Eskimo and found a needle in a haystack, is probably the most unorthodox drumbeater in the land. LINK TO THE ARTICLE
It's a matter of supply and demand. P T Barnum operated under the premise that most people wanted to be conned. Anyone that was entertained by having one blown by them created the demand. Barnum was the supplier.
