A joke, yes. We will laugh in the car.
When I was in high school I had some friends that would play a game called "Food for Cash". This game entailed thinking up something gross to eat, like a can of dog food or a candle and then putting some money down. Someone else who wanted the money would take up the bet. Gross items would be consumed and phone calls to the poison control center would ensue. I was recently reading a book about San Francisco's legenday Barbary Coast and came across this tidbit of information that reminded me of the old "Food for Cash" days:
In the Barbary Coast there was an attraction in the form of a character known as "Dirty Tom" McAlear, a filthy beggar who never bathed and who earned his living by charging a few cents and then eating or drinking any liquid offered, no matter how foul. This behavior was too much for even the usually tolerant San Franciscans: Dirty Tom's career came to an end when he was arrested and jailed for "making a beast of himself."
