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Article #6851Re: $2.00 bills good or conterfiet?
From: Michael Jason Lewis
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 00:00
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 00:00
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In article <cas.529.0029808E@ops1.bwi.wec.com>,
Bob Casanova <cas@ops1.bwi.wec.com> wrote:
}In article <hatunenDoJx3x.B21@netcom.com> hatunen@netcom.com (DaveHatunen) writes:
}>From: hatunen@netcom.com (DaveHatunen)
}>Subject: Re: $2.00 bills good or conterfiet?
}>Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 05:40:45 GMT
}
}>When I was a kid back in the late 1940s, a local movie theater had a
}>$10,000 bill on display in connection wiht some movie involving money.
}>They ahd it in a glass case in the lobby, and it wasn't guarded as
}>heavily as one would think, the explanation being that if someone stole
}>it there wasn't much tehy could do wiht it.
}
}I can see it:
}
}"OK, sir, that'll be three-fifty for the fillup."
}
}"Here you go."
}
}"What the hell is this??!!?"
Read some Mark Twain sometime. I forget the exact name of the story, but it's
"The $1,000,000 Something-or-other".
- Mike
--
"To put it bluntly," Hayashi said, "I think Stanford and institutions like
Stanford produce a lot of the people who go on to screw up the world."
-- Stanford Daily, Feb. 16, 1996
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106595,4f61367ee31658a7 X-Google-Attributes: gid106595,public X-Google-Thread: 11474a,4f61367ee31658a7 X-Google-Attributes: gid11474a,public X-Google-Thread: 107518,4f61367ee31658a7 X-Google-Attributes: gid107518,public From: trump@leland.Stanford.EDU (Michael Jason Lewis) Subject: Re: $2.00 bills good or conterfiet? Date: 1996/03/22 Message-ID: <4iubhf$s0@elaine13.Stanford.EDU> X-Deja-AN: 143684582 references: <4hrb4o$q89@news2.deltanet.com> <4inn1h$esb@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> <hatunenDoJx3x.B21@netcom.com> <cas.529.0029808E@ops1.bwi.wec.com> organization: Stanford University, CA 94305, USA newsgroups: misc.consumers,ba.consumers,alt.consumers.experiences