HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rrogers@watson.ibm.com (Ryan Rogers)
Subject: Re: Question about "T." in James T. Kirk !!!!!! (As seen on TV)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:24:28 GMT
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.14n by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: rrogers@watson.ibm.com (Ryan Rogers)
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

In <1992Nov10.203818.14246@dsd.es.com> pmartz@dsd.es.com (Paul Martz) writes:
>In article <BxIEtG.AEs@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, miles@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Derick) writes:
>>In article <1992Nov10.051247.26359@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>>In article <BxGwLn.HEo@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> bwbrock@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Benjamin Warre Brock) writes:
>>>>Tiberius
>>>Terry
>>Timmy
>Testicular
Tasteless
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.computers
From: starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky)
Subject: Re: Jackpotting ATM's for $$$$
Organization: University of Washington
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:19:26 GMT

khoover@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (kent.d.hoover) writes:

>In article <1does6INNlgf@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC) writes:
>>
>>One of my friends (in the UK) asked an ATM machine for #200. It hummed & 

>By the way, what does the middle initial 'T' in ATM stand for?

"Terry," I think.  That, or "teller."  I think it's the first one.

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: ralf@fester.dell.com (Raymond La France - X2787)
Subject: Re: Frozen Waste
Reply-To: ralf@ioscc.neosoft.com
Organization: IO SpecialistsConsulting
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 23:07:36 GMT

So what was the problem?  Imagine having groceries delivered right to
your living room..... it's time to invite the in-laws over for an
early Thanksgiving dinner!  And remember, frozen airliner waste is
a lot like cheese and pussy -- the stinkier, the better!
--
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ralf@ioscc.neosoft.com     | pet the sweaty things!
(303)673-2787              | (Y)  (Y)  (Y)  (Y)  (Y)  (Y)  (Y)
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From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Nickles (was Canadian pennies)
Date: 7 Nov 92 19:14:56 GMT
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates

In article <MNSSBLJ8@cc.swarthmore.edu> sstockw1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Sarah Stockwell) writes:
>In a previous article, I wrote:
...
>> Maybe you are thinking of the US 'dime', which is (almost sort of kind of)
>> the same size as the 'penny' and is worth 10 times as much, but is about
>> 2/3 the size of a coin which is worth half as much?  (The numbers are
>> slightly different, but the idea is the same...)
>
>Actually, I think (s)he was thinking of the Susan B. Anthony dollar, which
>was about the same size as the quarter (and half the size of a 50-cent
>piece), which came out about ten years ago and is still used for change in
>Pennsylvania transit ticket machines.

The original poster was implying that there was something "loony" (as
in, not sane) about having a circulating coin meeting those criteria.

I merely pointed out that the US dime, which has a long and distiguished
history of circulation, and is not viewed as a goofy coin by any means,
meets, essentially, those criteria.

Of course, the Susie B meets them as well.  But I have never understood
people's dislike of the Susie B.  I think they are cool, and I expect
that people who cannot distinguish between them and quarters are
probably the same people who never figured out how to record on their VCRs.

I still use them whenever I can.  At one of the places where I eat lunch
frequently, the counter person just loves 'em.  She just goes ga-ga
whenever I pay with Susie Bs.  They are also still in use for pinball
machines (1 play for 50c [two quarters], 3 plays for a Susie B).


... 'course I remember when pinball machines were a dime.  In fact, I
once owned a dime pinball machine...

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	  hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars, every time he posts -
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From: rjwade@rainbow.ecn.purdue.edu (Robert J. Wade)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.conspiracy
Subject: Re: Trilateral commission
Date: 6 Nov 92 18:48:43 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <BxAyDA.JwF@acsu.buffalo.edu> v462etnn@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (David L Anderson) writes:
>In article <1992Nov6.150237.24924@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, pwhitman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Philip N Whitman) writes...
>>What is the Trilateral Commission?
>> 
>>-Neal
>
>Look it up in _More of the Straight Dope_ by Cecil Adams.
>Basically, a group that holds meetings to discuss politics,
>the quality of hired help, life, the universe, and everything.
>The Tri refers to what was thought to be the future world
>superpowers: USA (of course, all modesty aside ;-)), Europe, 
>and Japan.
>
>They don't do anything worth mentioning.
>
>David

then why all the hype about new world order and world congress etc.
there is always some group holding a lecture warning about one-world gov. and
how usa big banks are buying up all the small independents as first step of
control....
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Emoticon Research
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 05:04:41 GMT

Phil better stop rotating his Klystrons or whatever he's boning up on these
days, since the following may be a particularly tough case for him:

From news.columbia.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!news.oc.com!mercury.unt.edu!dip112.gab330.unt.edu!spinuzzi Wed Nov  4 23:52:05 EST 1992
Article: 33241 of alt.folklore.computers
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,bit.listserv.bitnews,bit.listserv.netnws-1,misc.misc,news.misc
From: spinuzzi@gab.unt.edu (Clay Spinuzzi)
Subject: BE MY GUINEA PIG!
Summary: Participate in an intriguing study with important social ramifications!
Organization: College of Arts and Sciences
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 01:29:12 GMT

Help!

I'm working on a research project to determine how people use
emoticons (smiley faces) on the USEnet, and how that use differs
from country to country. Although I'm researching in libraries as
well, I need to send out some questionnaires to get *your*
opinions.

If you'd be interested in filling out a short (one page)
questionnaire, I'd be eternally grateful.  Just send me a reply
and I'll e-mail you one.

Thanks for your help.

______________________

This guy's diodes may all be cold-cathode gas-filled types.

cjl
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: stu5s33@bnr.ca (Jerry Boonstra)
Subject:  Deckard IS a replicant
Followup-To: FAQ posting
Reply-To: stu5s33@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell Northern Research Ltd
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 23:38:53 GMT

"Excuse me.  But can anyone tell me what's going on here?"

OK, I read the FAQ and I find the following line:

"U. Deckard was a replicant."

I thought this was all cleared up with the release of the 'Directors Cut' of
"Blade Runner".  The re-added `unicorn dream` scene definitely gives us an 
answer.  I think the 'U' can be changed to a 'Tb' if not a 'T'.

Please ignore this post if this FAQ entry was some weird AFU 'in' joke. 



Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.culture.african.american,sci.skeptic
From: sterrett@nosc.mil (Anthony E. Sterrett)
Subject: Re: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
Summary: Yes but is it true
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 01:01:16 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.222416.5113@engage.pko.dec.com>, moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com writes:
> Ummmm, don't know if this was mentioned, but the "AIDS is biological warfare
> created by the CIA to wipe out Africans/whoever" story is Soviet propaganda/
> disinformation _designed_ to make the US look bad in the eyes of the world
> (particularly Africa).
> 
> -Mike
This may be Soviet propagand but is it disinformation. As We have learned
so of the thing the Third world think about the US are true. Anyway this
claim to be Soviet disinformation needs to be support. Does any body
remember when any civil right worker was said to be a commie?


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From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Puking on shoes - A part of the culture?
Date: 12 Nov 1992 07:12:02 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson) writes:

  +>This diode thing has gone on for some time, and it's all Terry Chan's
  +>fault.  At AFU |\/, I passed out more diodes than everybody could carry.
  +>No more diode jokes.  This includes tunnel diodes, Gunn diodes, step
  +>recovery diodes, and obscure devices only cjl can remember.

Waaah!

lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:

  +Let's start alt.folklore.diodes.

Shouldn't that be comp.folklore.diodes?

Terry "Or is that too shocking?" Chan
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From: dave@eram.esi.COM.AU (Dave Horsfall)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: College Coed Murder UL
Date: 12 Nov 92 03:05:55 GMT
Organization: Pacific ESI, Sydney, AUSTRALIA

In article <100826@bu.edu>,
    uni@acs.bu.edu (Shaen Bernhardt) writes:

| hears some horse breathing or gasping, like someone trying to draw

What do horses have to do with this?

-- 
Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU)         VK2KFU @ VK2RWI.NSW.AUS.OC
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           Disclaimer: "Me, speak for us?"
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Mmmm... Purple)
Subject: Re: forpost-WWII Japanese soldiers
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 22:33:06 GMT

In article <49392@shamash.cdc.com> dternes@duke.cdc.com (David Ternes) writes:
>I've always assumed that the stories of Japanese soldiers thinking that
>WWII was still going on long after it was over were part folklore.  You
>know the ones where they are hiding out in caves on Guam continuing some
>form of guerilla warfare 20 years after the war was over.
>
>What's the basis for these stories?

Gilligan's Island reruns.

ObUL: Gilligan's Island: The Musical.  Coming to Broadway 1994.
-- 
ted frank                     | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu 
also at quibeaux@uchicago.edu | standard disclaimers | void where prohibited
the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
From: tomj@monster.apd.saic.com (Tom Johnson)
Subject: Re: Still Sinking.../Architectural Goofs
Organization: SAIC, Reston, VA
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 12:42:25 GMT

moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com writes:

>In article <1992Nov7.035246.19850@news.acns.nwu.edu>, ssriv@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Sanjay Srivastava) writes...
>> 
>>re: the University of Chicago radoiactivity story...
>> 
>>	I also seem to remember hearing a story that when they were
>>testing this atomic pile, they had two grad students standing above it, on
>>the gound level, holding control rods in case anything went wrong.  Anyone
>>from U of C able to back me up on this?

>I recently read a description of this, according to the book they had one
>person with an axe and another with a large hammer.  If anything went wrong
>the person with the axe was to cut a rope which dropped control rods and
>the person with the hammer broke a large bottle of boric acid over the
>reactor which was supposed to stop the reaction.

And this, according to the legend, is the origin of the verb "scram", meaning
to perform an emenrgency reactor shutdown:  The guy with the axe was
called the Safety Control Rod Axe Man.
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From: dwestlan@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk (David Westland)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Question about "T." in James T. Kirk !!!!!! (As seen on TV)
Date: 13 Nov 92 14:50:49 GMT
Reply-To: dwestlan@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk
Organization: British Telecom Labs

>>: >>>>Terry
>>: >>>Timmy
>>: >>Testicular
>>: >Tasteless
>>: Transvestyte
>>Taliesin

	Everyone in the UK knows it's "TWAT" !!


	Alternatively it could be "THE" as in Rupert The Bear.

Anyway, who gives a "Kirk".




 _________________________________________________________________________
  DAVE WESTLAND     Software Development Division, BT Labs, IP5 7RE. U.K.  
    Email: D.Westland@axion.bt.co.uk   Tel: +44 473 642156  (Fax: 644605)

     ` "Security" isn't a dirty word.  "Crevice" IS a dirty word. '
			BlackAdder Goes forth.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc,alt.fan.lemurs,alt.cascade
From: chrisbee@ccimp.csh.rit.edu (I stay crunchy in milk.)
Subject: Re: Question about "T." in James T. Kirk !!!!!! (As seen on TV)
Organization: Computer Science House @ RIT, Rochester, NY.
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 04:36:16 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.232607.21250@csus.edu> vcsc458@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Roy) writes:
>In article <1992Nov10.212428.100792@watson.ibm.com> rrogers@watson.ibm.com (Ryan Rogers) writes:
>>In <1992Nov10.203818.14246@dsd.es.com> pmartz@dsd.es.com (Paul Martz) writes:
>>>In article <BxIEtG.AEs@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, miles@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Derick) writes:
>>>>In article <1992Nov10.051247.26359@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>>>>In article <BxGwLn.HEo@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> bwbrock@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Benjamin Warre Brock) writes:
>>>>>>Tiberius
>>>>>Terry
>>>>Timmy
>>>Testicular
>>Tasteless
>Transvestyte
Titular

-- 
chrisbee@nick.csh.rit.edu****************cleric/magic-user2,1

Let's take something whose whole purpose in life is to be
unhealthy and give it the veneer of dietary worth.
From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: furrfu??
Keywords: Beats The Hell Out Of Me
Date: 9 Nov 92 12:47:57 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre

In article <1992Nov4.215431.19946@athena.cs.uga.edu> jordan@castor (USENET's Chuck) writes:

>Now here's my question:  what does BTW stand for?

Bacon, tomato, & whitebait sandwich??


Dave "has it got acorns on it?" Budd




  You don't have to work to be mad here      email: d.budd@mcc.ac.uk
  Dave Budd, MCC, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England   (44|0)61-275-6033  
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: vkochend@nyx.cs.du.edu (vance kochenderfer)
Subject: Re: Port Out Starboard Home -- That's the Life for ME!
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 23:01:52 GMT

In article <27260@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>  
>  +>Terry "Does anybody know what IBM and DEC stands for?" Wood
>
>And IBM was Idiots Built Me?
>  
    Didn't IBM once make a three-sided computer?

Vance "does anyone know anybody famous who works for IBM?" Kochenderfer
Virginia Tech                     |         "Frink!"
vkochend@nyx.cs.du.edu            |           -Rudolpho the Lemur
From: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Microwave Death
Date: 12 Nov 92 13:31:46 GMT
	<CINDY.92Nov11202231@solan10.solan.unit.no>
Reply-To: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
Organization: gators 'r us
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.04 Rev. Sep  5 1992

In <CINDY.92Nov11202231@solan10.solan.unit.no>, Cynthia Kandolf writes:
>
>Microwaves do NOT cook things "from the inside out".  If you don't
>believe me, put something that melts easily, like a small block of ice
>or a bowl of ice cream, in a microwave.  Zap it for short periods of
>time, checking the melting pattern as you go along.  The stuff nearest
>the outside will go first, because there is nothing shielding them
>from the microwaves.  Microwaves cook from the outside in. 

all true.  *but* if you overcook some things in a microwave (the one time i
tried a recipe for microwave biscuits for example), they burn inside while
the outside doesn't.  when you burn biscuits in a regualr oven, the outside
truns black.  this may be the source of the confusion.
-- 
-- little gator aka s. mudgett     email: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
-- friend of a gator is a friend of mine
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: pjd@unislc.uucp (Priscilla Davidson)
Subject: Re: Amusing pronouns, was: Big Brother Radio Shack
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 23:53:04 GMT

From article <13070@optilink.UUCP>, by walsh@optilink.UUCP (Mark Walsh):
> 
> An old friend of mine liked calling the place I used to
> work at, and asking the receptionist to page some non-
> existant people.  My favorites were:
> 
> Mike Hunt
> Dr. Jack Meehoff
> Daniel Druff
> 
> Any others out there?
> -- 

    My husband was baptized into his church many years ago by a Jack Hoff.
    It's true.  I saw the baptismal certificate and Jack Hoff's signature!
From: smith+@cs.cmu.edu (Sean Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Philadelphia Experiment
Summary: the PITTSBURGH connection
Keywords: told you so!
Date: 11 Nov 92 19:57:09 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon

In article <1992Nov11.172012.6359@netcom.com> sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer) writes:
>
>       At the risk of spoiling someone's fun, I am reposting an
>       item I wrote earlier when questions about the "Philadelphia 
>       Experiment" came up.
>
>
>OK, I went digging in my files, and uncovered an article from FATE magazine,
>Oct. 1980 by Robert A. Goerman, called "Alias Carlos Allende". Summarizing 
>what it says:

	< much fun material deleted >

>Allen's letters carried the return address of a house in New Kensington,
>PA, the author's home town, so he investigated. 
>
>"I learned the whereabouts of all three of Allen(de)'s brothers." He also
>located Carl's father, turned out to be his neighbor. Goerman was given
>full access to papers that the family had. He concludes, "Carlos loves
>to play games with those foolish enough to play audience... Carl is
>described as a 'master leg-puller'. Once he purportedly feigned a heart
>attack while working ... ". In a letter to his parents, Carl admits
>annotating Jessup's book, by himself. 

	< more material deleted >
>
>       (P.S: According to email I have received, Allen(de) is STILL
>        writing crackpot letters to scientists, in 1992!)


Notice that New Kensington is just outside of PITTSBURGH.  I rest my case.


ObSuggestion: We should get Allen to start posting to the net.

ObUL: He already is.  Has anyone ever seen TJ Woods and Carlos Allende at the
same time?


--Sean ``Abundant Follow Ups'' Smith

******************************************************************************
                         sean.smith@cs.cmu.edu
                     carnegie mellon computer science

          posting from PITTSBURGH, the center of the AFUniverse!
******************************************************************************
From: wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: HERE'S HOW TO SHUT DOWN THE NET!
Date: 8 Nov 1992 14:14:23 GMT
Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews abusers - Beltway Annex
Reply-To: wb8foz@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu (David Lesher)
NNTP-Posting-Host: skybridge.scl.cwru.edu

Others said
# Now if you posted something about a Gene Roddenberry sighting at a
# Burger King in Columbus, you might get somewhere.

I saw him here at the Library of Congress with Asimov. They're
working on a biography of Cordwinder Bird.
--
A host is a host from coast to coast..wb8foz@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu
& no one will talk to a host that's close..........................
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.nude
From: lola@lucid.com (Lola McCrary)
Subject: Re: Driving without shoes
Organization: Lucid, Inc.
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 04:20:37 GMT

The best reason I know to wear shoes in the car is that if I need to get out
*fast* for some reason (about to be hit by another car, car is on fire, etc.),
I don't want to risk burning and/or cutting my feet because I did not have time
to put my shoes back on.

Lola
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: bwbrock@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Benjamin Warre Brock)
Subject: Re: Question about "T." in James T. Kirk !!!!!! (As seen on TV)
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 21:20:10 GMT
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
Keywords: We don' nee' no stinkeen' keywords!

Tiberius

-- 
Ben Brock
bwbrock@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu
aero engr (junior)
From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Ex-presidents
Date: 5 Nov 1992 21:43:28 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
  +
  +	How about Rockefeller and Agnew?  Are they yet dead?

Yep.  But they're doing more for their country now then they ever did.

Terry "How many ex-VP Chiefs of Staff have there been?" Chan
--
Energy and Environment Division   | Internet:  TWChan@lbl.gov
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: obrien@netcom.com (Robert O'Brien)
Subject: Re: Legal Tender
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 09:44:58 GMT

billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>
>Nope. In either case, the merchant is allowed to set the conditions
>of the sale. Until you pay for the merchandise, either party is free
>to back out of the deal. If you want to pay, using a method that is
>not acceptable to the merchant, the merchant is free to back out of
>the deal by simplly refusing to accept the payment. 
>

Now, if I take some friends to the aforementioned Denny's, and we total
up, say, $48.50, then they don't want my (who's that? uh.. Grant, yeah!)
$50 bill, and refuse to accept it.  Well, since most of my friends are
the type that could appreciate AFU, we would certainly offer to return
the goods...

I've tested this a few times.  In my experience, if the sign says:
"Bills larger than $20 not accepted" or the equivalent, what it *really*
means is they have a drop-safe and can't get a $20 for your change.
It's just too complicated to say "We can't make change over $20"

I once had *no* problem spending a $100 bill at a business featuring a
prominent "We do not accept bills larger than $20" sign. My total came
to $98 and some change.

Another time, at a 7-11, I showed the clerk that a $50 was literally
all I had.  He had me wait until someone spent a $20.  Then, rather than
pop it right into the drop-safe, he made change for me. Not all clerks
understand *why*, obviously, so some will not be willing or able to "bend"
the rules.


Bob "Just put a dry $50 in and those wet $1's will be crisp before
	you know it - whaddya mean not *that* kind of laundering??" O'Brien
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