Post #172,427
9/2/04 12:41:56 PM
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Clerk Fooled by Bill With Bush's Picture
GREENSBURG, Pa. - A store clerk at a woman's clothing store was fooled by a fake $200 bill, despite several dead giveaways on the currency including President Bush's picture and the serial number DUBYA4U2001.
Police on Wednesday charged Deborah Trautwine, 51, with theft by deception for allegedly passing the bogus bill at the Fashion Bug store on Aug. 22.
There is no such denomination, with or without Bush's picture.
Police didn't say how much change the clerk handed over to the woman.
In addition to Bush's picture, the bill didn't bear the signature of the secretary of the treasury. Instead, it was "signed" by Ronald Reagan, whose title was "Political Mentor" and by Bush's father, who is listed as "Campaign Advisor and Mentor."
The back of the bill was even goofier.
It depicted the White House with several signs erected on the lawn, including those reading "We Like Broccoli" and "USA Deserves A Tax Cut."
[link|http://www.statesman.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/National/Funny_Money.html|source] You are now free to insult the American educational system lincoln
"Windows XP has so many holes in its security that any reasonable user will conclude it was designed by the same German officer who created the prison compound in "Hogan's Heroes." - Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times
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Post #172,442
9/2/04 2:36:27 PM
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Speechless...
A good friend will come and bail you out of jail ... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"
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Post #172,448
9/2/04 2:55:40 PM
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Password please...
I don't know this one...
jb4
shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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Post #172,465
9/2/04 4:49:17 PM
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Re: Password please...
The password is your email address - they send you a confirmation email to which you have to reply. Since I don't have a generic account somewhere which I wouldn't care if it was posted here or elsewhere, you'll have to sign up for it yourself. Sorry.
Enough of the article is here BTW.
lincoln
"Windows XP has so many holes in its security that any reasonable user will conclude it was designed by the same German officer who created the prison compound in "Hogan's Heroes." - Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times
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Post #172,572
9/3/04 2:40:41 AM
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Here's a helpful link: http://www.bugmenot.com/
At "[link|http://www.bugmenot.com/|BugMeNot.com - Bypass Compulsory Web Registration]" you can type in any registration-required URL and get the ID/PW of any account(s) it has registered for that site.
Plugging in the Sun-Times gives:
Login details for www.suntimes.com
Account #1
village
idiot
BTW, a quick browse of the source also shows their justification for offering this service -- actually, I suppose one could call it their take on the philosophy of the Web -- in the keywords:
<meta name="keywords" content="website, passwords, are, annoying, and, counter, to, the, spirit, of, the, net" />
[link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575|Ashton Brown]
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Post #172,654
9/3/04 4:16:26 PM
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story came from the Austin American-Statesman
not the Chicago Sun-Times; the Sun-Times doesn't require any registration to read their online newspaper.
lincoln
"Windows XP has so many holes in its security that any reasonable user will conclude it was designed by the same German officer who created the prison compound in "Hogan's Heroes." - Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times
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Post #172,670
9/3/04 4:46:17 PM
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Duh, sorry - I'd saved several links to get back to later...
...and apparently plugged in the wrong one in response to the right post.
Or, possibly, vice versa.
[link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575|Ashton Brown]
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Post #172,458
9/2/04 3:55:05 PM
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At least he's a pResident
In St. Louis, some $70 dollar bills bearing Mark McGwire's portrait were taken as real currency, and even cashed by a bank.
-drl
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Post #172,478
9/2/04 5:21:16 PM
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Wasn't this from a couple of years ago?
or was this another clerk fooled by this bill. I remember a story very similar a couple of years ago, and they showed the bill which appeared exactly as described in this story.
~~~)-Steven----
"I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.
He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country..."
General George S. Patton
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Post #172,485
9/2/04 5:28:47 PM
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I have the same recollection.
Alex
"If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." -- Philip K. Dick, US science fiction writer
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Post #172,573
9/3/04 2:43:09 AM
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Serial number of the bill, "...2001", seems to confirm this.
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