Musings and observations from T.J. Smith, commenting on the passing parade.
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Double Jeopardy
The NYT obituary writer, Margalit Fox, must have come out of retirement to do the full page coverage of the "second" death of that hoaxer, Alan Abel, who had faked his earlier demise in 1980. His first prank was creating the Society for Indecency to naked animals or SINA which sought to clothe all naked animals that appear in public. The idea was spawned when he was tied up in traffic by a bull and a cow copulating in the middle of the road. Later he fooled Walter Cronkite with a slogan "a nude horse is a rude horse." He said his primary intent was to give people a kick in the intellect. He later created Yetta Bronstein, a Jewish grandmother from the Bronx, to run for President with the slogan "Vote for Yetta and things will get betta." But lest I spoil it for you, try to catch his full page obit - NYT Tuesday September 18, 2018.
tjs
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