i could use a laugh

and i figured you probably could too. after the last 48 hours of less than enriching retail slaughter, i turn now to someone unsurpassed at turning malice for your fellow man into comedy gold. this publicity still of w.c. fields and eddie "rochester" anderson from you can't cheat an honest man (1939) kills me with its comic potential energy.

as my dear old grandfather litvak said, just before they swung the trap, he said "you can't cheat an honest man. never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump".