August 8th, 2007, filed by Robert Basler
Anybody in advertising will tell you, do what you can to hook the customer. Now, take this watermelon salesman in the picture. I’ll bet buyers flock to him, because he’s got an act.
“Judy, we’re not getting our fruit from those other guys with no melons on their heads, and not even from that fella with only one melon. No, we’re doing business with the one who can balance two melons, until somebody comes along who can do three…”
Of course, maybe it’s all just a sad trick. What if that’s just a very elaborate haircut, or he has a spike through the melons, or what if they’re some of those fancy helium melons we’ve all read about? All we know for certain about this dude is, he arrives at the market looking like this, in a car with an open sunroof. Hmmmm…..
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A Palestinian vendor balances watermelons on his head to attract customers in the West Bank city of Ramallah July 30, 2007. REUTERS/Loay Abu Haykel
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August 8th, 2007 at 2:16 pm GMT
Well…I would have bought the melons…but I’m not down with the whole undershirt thing. And what’s with the necklace? It doesn’t go with his outfit at all!
August 8th, 2007 at 3:21 pm GMT
This guy better pray that Gallagher is nowhere in the vicinity.
August 8th, 2007 at 8:40 pm GMT
The rollerblades are overkill. Cool, but still overkill.
August 8th, 2007 at 8:55 pm GMT
The universal symbol for “I’ve only got eight melons left to sell.”
August 8th, 2007 at 8:56 pm GMT
Those vegetable cannons are danged accurate.
August 8th, 2007 at 8:57 pm GMT
The Jolly Green Giant really likes messing with this guy using a couple of oversized peas.
August 8th, 2007 at 9:01 pm GMT
William Tell’s great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandkids STILL haven’t learned their lesson.
August 8th, 2007 at 9:05 pm GMT
Is he bald as a melon? Only his head wrapper knows for sure.
August 8th, 2007 at 9:09 pm GMT
Palastine. Not the birthplace of the piƱata.
August 8th, 2007 at 9:10 pm GMT
Dude, your sniper defense is weak.
August 10th, 2007 at 8:49 am GMT
Carmen Miranda sure hasn’t aged well, has she?