I took so much flack following the publication of yesterday’s column concerning Bentteaspoon’s spiritual crisis that I thought I had entered a war zone. Owners of some of Shalampax’s more profitable cult religion companies complained loudly about my having revealed that most of them have, “bank accounts with balances totaling several billion dollars.”
The cult religion owners admitted that my words were technically accurate, however they feared that my revelation about their wealth created a false impression that will cause them harm.
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Pinupcalendar has come up with a brilliant idea for what should be a very lucrative venture.
A day or two ago, she read a newspaper article that said that old movie posters are selling for huge sums. Pinupcalendar learned that an original poster from the 1931 film Dracula, with Bela Lugosi, recently sold for $310,700 (US). And, in an unrelated sale, a poster from the 1954 Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn film, Sabrina, sold for $15,480 (US).
Hmm … A poster for a movie about a blood-sucking vampire (sounds a lot like most Shalampaxians; rhetorically speaking, of course) is worth a little over 20 times more than a poster for a love story about two wealthy brothers—one a playboy and one a hard-worker—and a chauffeur’s daughter. Who knew? Maybe Paperplate should start selling posters in the Shalampax Flag Store and the Shalampax Coat of Arms store. We’re more sinister than vampires. But, I digress.
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