Actually, they've just gotten better at hiding the blood. Double Indemnity was made into a great movie, BTW, with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwick (?). Karl ----- Original Message ----- From: <JKrevnov@aol.com> To: <wolzphoto@worldnet.att.net>; <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com> Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 10:59 AM Subject: Re: Clipped by Insurance
> > In a message dated 3/3/01 2:31:27 AM, wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET writes: > > << the insurance company offers you > $1200 bucks when you know it's really only gonna take $250 to make it right >> > > Karl, > > We all know how generous insurance companies are. There is a great line in > the novel "Double Indemnity". In characterizing insurance companies, the > main character says that if you look closely at the bricks in the towering > skyscrapers built by insurance companies, you will find that they are not > held together with mortar but, instead, blood. That book probably was > written 50 years ago and in that time insurance companies have not changed; > if any thing, they have just refined their techniques and built bigger > buildings. > > Rich > |
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