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
>