Quote - Very cool, Phil... Is this one based on that play "Death of a Salesman" or on the Twilight Zone episode where a fast talker outwit Death by giving him the biggest pitch in the history of creation?

It might be a bit too mid-Atlantic in style, but "spiv" is definitely British English. Private Walker, Flash Harry, that sort of guy. But Phil might have had "Guys and Dolls" in mind too.