# I'd like a sandwich with several travesties, please... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 20, 2007, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-a-sandwich-with-several-travesties-please/416303 "2007-08-20T22:16:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-a-sandwich-with-several-travesties-please/416303/1 "2007-08-20T22:16:45Z")
…hold the mayo. While cruising around the Snopes message boards last night, I came upon a link to [this site](http://www.freewebs.com/thekingofwolves/index.htm#111597760), which purports to reveal several “Easter Eggs” of life, such as this little gem: > [@](#): > > **Some Nutball** wrote: > If you go to New York and order a deli sandwich “with several travesties” (any deli owner worth his salt will know what you are talking about), they will slip an envelope between the turkey and they cheese. If you can remove it without exposing it to any mayonnaise, the secrets within will be yours forever. First off, what does it matter if the paper touches mayonnaise? Can’t a person just wipe it off and read the note anyway? Or is mayonnaise the holiest of condiments, capable of breaking any pact one forms with a satanic sandwich? And this pearl of wisdom: > [@](#): > > All mirrors are actually windows to another world. > > This world cannot be reached, and shouldn’t be reached, as all our mirror-selves are extremely malicious. So the **Pixiesnix** in the mirror dancing around in her jammies to “Love Train” is a malicious entity out to get me? Who knew? The sections about Mel’s Hole and Black-Eyed Kids are worth a few laughs, too. And if you have a few hours to kill, The Holders section sounds like it would make a pretty good video game. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-a-sandwich-with-several-travesties-please/416303/2 "2007-08-20T22:36:45Z")
I think you’ve just been whooshed. Hard. ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-a-sandwich-with-several-travesties-please/416303/3 "2007-08-20T22:39:17Z")
Damn. Well, I think I’ve been embarassed enough here. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-a-sandwich-with-several-travesties-please/416303/4 "2007-08-20T22:41:50Z")
I consider mayo to be a product of Satan himself, so for all I know, the Father writes out the letter, the Son stuffs the envelope, and the Holy Ghost licks the flap. The contents of the envelope are, of course, the recipe for the cake left out in the rain. (Never thought I’d have that recipe again, oh nooooo.) And I’m fairly confident the first Black-Eyed Kids account was stolen from another website. I remember reading it awhile ago around Hallowe’en, and it wasn’t there. It freaked me out fairly badly when I read it, but it was late and it was raining and then a branch fell out of the tree next to the house. ETA: Oops, I read the section more thoroughly and saw that the post was attributed, and taken from Usenet. Complaint withdrawn. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-a-sandwich-with-several-travesties-please/416303/5 "2007-08-20T22:43:53Z")
Still, loads of fun. I can’t explain why I love Gospel that involves books that no one has ever read, which detail events that…well, noone would know now, would they–not having read about them. hee…pure mischief that is. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-a-sandwich-with-several-travesties-please/416303/6 "2007-08-20T22:51:22Z")
It sounds like out takes form the novel, _Jonathan Strange & Mr.Norrell_ ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-a-sandwich-with-several-travesties-please/416303/7 "2007-08-20T23:07:17Z")
From that same page: “Go into a Subway and tell the clerk you want to order the sandwich they’d always wished a customer would order. They will quickly, quietly, and without expression, craft the sandwich from many different ingredients. The sandwich will be the best thing you’ve ever tasted. This only works once per clerk. If you ask them to make it again, they will not recollect how. If you attempt to re-construct it, it will fail.” ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-a-sandwich-with-several-travesties-please/416303/8 "2007-08-20T23:17:14Z")
Surely I’m not the only one who read the title of this thread as “I’d like a sandwich with several _transvestites_, please?” ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-a-sandwich-with-several-travesties-please/416303/9 "2007-08-20T23:20:39Z")
Wow there are just hours of fun and entertainment on that page there. My fave so far is “a man was shot and the bullet protruded slightly from the back of his skull into a three”. I was wondering how exactly the bullet lodged into a three - perhaps he was standing in front of his house where the street numbers were attached? Not exactly. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-a-sandwich-with-several-travesties-please/416303/10 "2007-08-21T00:28:01Z")
[QUOTE=Lightnin’] Surely I’m not the only one who read the title of this thread as “I’d like a sandwich with several _transvestites_, please?” [/QUOTE] Right there with ya. I couldn’t decide if **Pixie** wanted to dine _with_ em, or _on_ 'em. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-a-sandwich-with-several-travesties-please/416303/11 "2007-08-21T00:41:02Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] From that same page:… [/QUOTE] My favorite: > [@](#): > > There is a book that has only been spoken of in terrified whispers behind closed and locked doors. It is said that only seven people have ever seen this book over the course of all of human history and only four have opened it. > > Only one man has ever read it. > > The book…isn’t really a book at all, but a machine. The binding opens and locks, with a grate in the center where the pages can slide through. When the book is opened, and the pages lie flat, they can be shifted into different positions. Each page is made of metal, the words embossed on it. On each edge of the page is a specially cut design; no two designs are the same. It is said that one must find the proper arrangement of each of the five hundred and thirty six pages and go to the “Rock of Chaos”, where time is the only constant. It is a place of madness where lightning moves from all directions and the sky itself burns with an insane blue fire. > […] > What the book says…well, only one man ever read it, and it is said that he locked himself in his room for thirty days before emerging, tome in hand, and swore to take the book to the ends of the earth before he died. He has never been seen or heard from since. So what did the other three people who have opened the book do? Just look at the pictures? And if only one man has ever read it, and has never been seen or heard from since, how do we know what the book contains? ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-a-sandwich-with-several-travesties-please/416303/12 "2007-08-21T00:43:14Z")
Closed at the request of the whooshee.