HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: A FAQ for the Holidays
Date: 22 Dec 1992 07:05:58 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

Somewhere in the FAQ list, I write:

  +> . . . Larry Doering, all the Terry's: Carroll, Chan, Monks, Wood, etc., 

tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll) writes:
  +
  +Ah, the joys of alphabetical order.

Wait til the next one!

Terry "How DO you spell 'poinsettier'?" Chan
--
Energy and Environment Division   | Internet:  TWChan@lbl.gov
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
Berkeley, California  USA  94720  | Carpe per diem
From: barth@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (barth.richards)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Santa on $1 bills!!
Date: 23 Dec 92 19:31:46 GMT
Organization: AT&T


In article <jberger.73.0@novell.com> jberger@novell.com (John Berger) writes:

>In article <1992Dec22.194453.27356@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>
barth@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (moi) writes:
>
>>From: barth@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (barth.richards)
>>
>>Barth "even as a child, knew that the Scooby Doo villan who put Washington's
>>portrait on counterfeit $100 bills was an idiot" Richards
>
>The local Safeway stores are selling $1 bills with Santa Claus' portrait on 
>them where George Washington's usually is.  The card attached says that they 
>are legal tender, fully bankable & spendable.

     ...

>Has anyone seen these in any other parts of the country?  

As well as ones with Elvis and each of the Beatles.  Quite common flea
market fodder.

-- 
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88  att!ihlpf!barth                           - William S. Burroughs         88
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.food.cooking
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: Cheese popcorn
Organization: The Ohio State University
 <1992Dec22.205952.9536@sunova.ssc.gov>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:36:06 GMT

jbaron@higgs.ssc.gov (Jeff Baron) writes:

>A whole stick of butter?  For 1/2 cup of (uncooked) popcorn?
>And grated cheese?  1000 calories.  10 miles of running.
>Or 2 large servings of flan.  I think I'll take the flan.

10 miles on 1000 calories.  That's the kind
of efficiency Ford's secret carburator gets.
BTW-why is this in AFU?  What is flan?

ObfoodUL: The pound cake is so called because it takes
a pound of butter.  Avoird(mumble) or imperial pound?

ObfoodUL2: George Bush doesn't like brocolli ,(Italian
for small cabbage), because it makes his urine smell.

Jon "Jumbo shrimp?" Papai
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:31897 sci.engr.civil:600
From: JTCHEW@lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,sci.engr.civil
Subject: Re: Skyscraper FALLS DOWN.
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Date: 22 Dec 1992 20:38:49 GMT
Organization: Honest Ernie's Used Ions
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.252.152

{Alt.folklore.urban deletia about falling skyscrapers and the means of 
keeping the things upright during earthquakes, windstorms, and kids jumping
up and down on the waterbed in the penthouse -- mentioned in case any of
you civils feel bored and want to drop in and comment}

One might look at two layman-oriented books published by W.W. Norton and
Company:  _Why Buildings Stand Up: The Strength of Architecture_ by Mario
Salvadori, and its new companion volume, inevitably entitled _Why Buildings
Fall Down_, by Matthys Levy and Mario Salvadori.

Joe
"Just another personal opinion from the People's Republic of Berkeley"
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:32206 rec.food.cooking:23961
From: SUSANMC@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu (Susan McIntosh)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.food.cooking
Subject: Re: Cheese popcorn
Date: 28 Dec 92 17:16:09 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: University of Florida, NERDC

In article <1992Dec22.095001.556@news.cs.indiana.edu>
dbreece@cherry.ucs.indiana.edu (Dave Breece) writes:
 
(stuff omitted...)
>I don't know if they make this anymore, but a few years back, Kraft
>was making grated cheddar cheese, much the same as their parmesan,
>only in an orange can, instead of green.
>
>It makes (made) wonderful cheese popcorn!
>
I like to use the Kraft Parmesan on my popcorn ... just sprinkle it on with
a little salt and away you go :-).  I don't have much use for canned Parmesan
since I discovered 'the real thing', but I still keep some around for popcorn.
 
susan
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: bjacobs@chopin.udel.edu (William J Jacobs)
Subject: Re: Ann Landers and the 5 sexes
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:21:26 GMT

In article <BzoDAy.C92@taligent.com> cep@taligent.com (Christophe Pettus) writes:
>In article <1992Dec22.145929.568907@locus.com> dwight@locus.com writes:
>>Saw this one in Ann Landers yesterday.  Some woman wrote in to Ann complaining
>>about one of her son's teachers.  Seems this teacher was teaching the kids that
>>there are actually 5 sexes in the world: male, female, homosexual, bisexual, and
>>asexual.  (She wanted to know if she should go in and complain to the school.  Ann
>>said she should get with other parents and file a group complaint.)
>>Don't they require teachers have a basic understanding of biology anymore?
>
>It's more likely that the student misunderstood the teacher, and the
>parent misunderstood the child.  The parent might have also just been
>outraged that the teacher DARED to mention that there were gays in the
>world; sadly, that strikes me as more likely that a teacher not
>knowning the difference between "sex" and "sexual orientation."
>--
Actually, I heard this in my "Biology of Human Sexuality" class at U of    
Delaware.  It seems to be a valid way of looking at the matter.  Sort of.
I'll bring in my textbook next time I check the newsgroups and give some
details.

Bill Jacobs
One of the above sexes

Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:32320 alt.folklore.science:4520
From: khartman@fnalo.fnal.gov
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.science
Subject: Re: Dead Pigeons (was: Electric Field Question)
Date: 30 Dec 92 23:35:41 -0600
Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab
NNTP-Posting-Host: fnalo.fnal.gov

In article <1992Dec24.173455.10085@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
> In article <9212232116.59@rmkhome.UUCP> rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
>>
>>Back around 1967, The Avatar, a Boston underground newspaper, had a recipe
>>for roast Boston Common pigeon.
> 
> 	It first appeared in _The Anarchist's Cookbook_.

		Hmmm, I must have a newer edition of TAC.  No pigeon recipe
in mine.  Could someone post it?


 
> Jon "Pigeons roasting on an open fire." Papai



Ken

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: A FAQ for the Holidays
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 00:35:45 GMT

FAQ writes:
>Tb.US Civil War Gen. Hooker is the source for a common term for streetwalkers.

In addition,
US Civil War Gen. Burnsides is the source for a common term for mutton chops.

Jon "US Civil War Genl. Lee was not Korean." Papai
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:32066 rec.arts.startrek.misc:13031 talk.bizarre:42900
From: kubo@zariski.harvard.edu (Tal Kubo)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Walking Between Rain Drops !!!!
Date: 24 Dec 92 09:47:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Dec24.044733.18819
Organization: Dept. of Math, Harvard Univ.

There was an extensive mathematical discussion of the optimal
strategy for passing through rain, published in SIAM Review 
within the past 3 years. (For those who don't know: SIAM = Society
for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.  SIAM Review has published 
other papers on ULish subjects, e.g. "On the sound emitted by a mug 
when stirring instant coffee".) 

-Tal  kubo@math.harvard.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Protestant caucasians
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:05:29 GMT

wvhorn@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William VanHorne) writes:
: >In article <1992Dec19.024607.26404@colorado.edu>, bear@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Bear Giles) writes
: >>
: >> Many subdivisions in the United States have covenants that prohibit the
: >> sale of houses to anyone except Protestant caucasians.  If you tried to
: >> back out of a sales contract based on that "legally binding" convenant you
: >> will find yourself in an incredible amount of legal trouble.
: >
: >Now, is this true? (Not John De Armond, but the covenants.)
: >
: Yup.  I got a chance to see the original deed covenants covering the land my
: parents house is on when they paid off their mortgage.  Their subdivision was
: constructed in 1948 - 1949, and the covenants attached to their deed state 
: that by purchasing their house they agree not to resell to "Negroes, Jews,
: or members of the Roman Catholic faith".

However, the covenant has to be "legally binding". Since racial and religious
descrimination has been banned by the federal government - the preemption
clause of the Constitution makes such covenants invalid and unenforceable.

So, even if such clauses exist in deeds, they are void.

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: mph@plasma.apana.org.au (Martin Peter Howell)
Subject: Re: Elevator DEATH!
Organization: APANA site, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 02:32:22 GMT

PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:

><MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes in
>Message-ID: <92348.231202MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>:

>BTW, are they called elevators or lifts in NZ and/or Australia?

In Australia people seem quite happy with either name.

-Martin.
mph@plasma.apana.org.au
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc,talk.bizarre
From: bs24@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Bruce Sarte)
Subject: Re: Walking Between Rain Drops !!!!
Reply-To: bs24@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Bruce Sarte)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 12:40:10 GMT

In article <josh.724981102@pogo> josh@cqs.washington.edu (Josh Hayes) writes:
>bs24@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Bruce Sarte) burbles:
>
>> [boring crap deleted; you should thank me]

	Thank you, damn, I could get down and just kiss your Rosey
	Red Rectum !!!!  I knew there would be an asshole out there
	that would be the first to flame a respectable post, and
	guess who it was !!!!

>
>I think it's time to dust off the old welcome to tb post....
>
>At least he had the good sense to post this during the holidays
>when he might have a better chance of escaping without too many
>termcaps in his mailbox.

	Not really, most of them have been responses dealing
	with the subject.

>
>P.S. the answer is, of course, it just doesn't matter. Doesn't
>matter. Nothing matters. You're wet anyway. Now, fuck off (tm).
>
>the doctor  IS     Grumpy. Tomorrow I'll be dopey and sneezy.

	You maybe Grumpy today, but it looks like you are
	dopey all the time.
>
>--
>  Josh Hayes, Quantitative Sciences HR-20 U of Washington
>  josh@mowgli.cqs.washington.edu             206 543-5004
>  The harder they come, the harder they fall, one and all


Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Dead Cat
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:45:08 GMT

rrd@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ray Depew) writes:
: Okay, here's a great story.  I heard it from a friend of ours, at a party.
: I've never known her to lie, and for all I know, it really did happen.  In
: any case, it was a great story, and a fun party (Hi Mike!) -- such a great
: story that I had to wonder if you've heard it before:

Only about 50 variation - I have not heard this particular version. The
touch with the ambulance is new, as far as I know. I am surprised that
there was not a bit about them seeing what was in the bag, thereby dropping
the stretcher and breaking the leg of the thief.

... UL delided ... 

: Well?

Similar stories have been around for decades. They all seem to involve
trash, or dead animals or other unsavory substances.

I expect there is some mention of this UL in the FAQ.

Bill "Bagman" Nelson
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:32168 sci.skeptic:21717
From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,sci.skeptic
Subject: Re: Wwy is the sky blue? (was Re: Daytime Stars - Not Donahue or Oprah)
Date: 27 Dec 1992 11:29:32 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Distribution: world
Reply-To: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <2934047046.4.p00168@psilink.com>, p00168@psilink.com (James F. Tims) writes:
>I can't figure out whether the atmosphere is a lens or a radiator;

It's both.  At sunrise or sunset, the sun will appear to be somewhat squashed. 
This is a result of the atmosphere acting as a lens.  On the other hand, try
the following experiment:  Wait until about an hour before sunset.  Look at the
eastern sky.  Blue isn't it?  Well, there's no way in hell that the atmosphere
is enough of a lens to somehow refract the sun's rays through more than 150
degrees.  When you see a blue sky to the east near sunset, you're talking about
radiation (glowing, to use your term).
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL

Disclaimer:  Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS.  That's what I get paid for.  My
understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below).  So
unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
organization responsible for it.  If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
From: rnorth@news.cecer.army.mil (Russ Northrup)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: abortion UL?
Summary: Anti-abortion movement increases abortion rate in 3rd world?
Keywords: abortion UL
Date: 21 Dec 92 23:04:58 GMT
Reply-To: r-northrup@cecer.army.mil
Organization: US Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Labs

I heard a while back that in getting federal funds cut from 
Planned Parenthood (or a similar organization) the anti-abortion 
movement actually increased the abortion rate in certain
third world countries.

The reasoning was that this organization was the main source of 
free contraception in these particular countries.  When the
funding was cut, the supply of contraceptives was cut, unwanted 
pregnancy increased, and thus abortion increased significantly.
Meanwhile, at home, nothing changed because private funding continued.

Truth or poetic UL?  
(...please, no abortion flames, I'm just curious if it happened...)
From: leb@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (BASEL, LESLIE)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Oscillation of skyscrapers
Date: 26 Dec 92 03:12:00 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

>>ObUL:  Some important buildings in quake prone areas are supported
>>on fat rubber shock absorbers.
>Most, in fact.  One of my class-mates (University of Waterloo, Civil
>Engineering 1985) did his masters work with a research company in Japan doing
>active earthquake damping - shoving big wieghts around in the tops of
>buildings to counteract the effects of the building moving.
> 
>ObUL: The process of revolving a restaurant causes the cost of the food to
>go up by 20%, and the quality to go down 15%
> 
>-- 
>Paul Tomblin, pt@compass.gvc.com
>(This is not an official opinion/statement of GeoVision Systems Inc.)
>Anybody who doesn't wear a helmet when biking probably _will_ have their head
>examined - by a coroner


There is a building in Vancouver, B.C. Canada that was built from the 
top down as a means of making it earthquake proof.


Rodger "before you flame, read the ps" Coghlan

Ps the central support was built as deep into the ground as it was high
   for stability and the building is suspended from the support, with
   all sorts of dampers in the center and HUGE rollers below the ground
   level floor.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair)
Subject: Re: A FAQ for the Holidays
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 22:05:16 GMT

lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu  writes:
...
> >>OFFICIAL FOOD OF AFU
> >>  - Chicken Mole'
> >>  - Red Velvet Cake
> >>  - Poinsettia salad
> >>  - Kentucky Fried Chicken 
> >>  - little gator's Deep Sh*t Cookies 
> >   - fruitcake
>     - anything served in Aluminum pans
      - anything with a UPC symbol (666 and all that rot)
      - live roasted fowl  (could also be mascot)
 
> > U. Lemurs love Twinkies and will do anything to get them.
>      Will they post to afu to get them?
	I used to work nights at a 24-hour grocery store, and I never saw any
lemurs at the Hostess display.  I would think they would steal them first.

BTW, how do you know that I am not a lemur?

Torsten at Omaha 
>
From: manley@optilink.COM (Terry Manley)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Federal Reserve Numbers (was: I Live to FAQ!)
Date: 29 Dec 92 01:14:29 GMT
Organization: DSC/Optilink Access Products

>In article <BzoyvG.7wv@news.cso.uiuc.edu> msvg2539@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark V.) writes:
>>UPDATE:

[A-F deleted]

>>          Chicago, IL            7     G
>>                                 8     H
>>                                 9     I
>           Kansas City, KS       10     J

>>Mark "Can't sleep until I know the HIJ cities" Veatch

From your mail path I guess that you're near a universitiy.  To get
the answer to your question you need to perform an experiment: get a
couple of kegs of beer, tell everyone you know to tell everyone that
they know that there is a party at Mark's house.  Then charge a buck
at the door for a cup for the beer.  If you get a good enough turnout
you probably will get at least one of each type of bill - it worked
for me!

Dave^H^H^H^HTerry "I'm not drinking beer, I'm researching the Federal Reserve" Manley

--
Mark your calendars: February 3 is National Honorary Terry Day.  You too can
                     be a Terry.  Send $1 for additional info.
From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Ethnicity & Soc.Secur.No.
Date: 26 Dec 92 11:21:05 GMT
Organization: Virginia Center for Lemur Fandom (subscribe to alt.fan.lemurs TODAY)

In article <92360.195253MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET writes:
>The story I heard is that the 1950s era government rigged the social security
>system so that any government agent or knowledgeable employer or banker could
>tell the ethnicity of someone by the middle two numbers. An -06-, -52-, -32-,
>-12- or any other EVEN middle number belongs to Blacks, Hispanics, Jews,
>Asians, etc. Any ODD middle number (e.g.  -67-, -43-, -07-) shows its owner
>to be a WASP of reasonably pure upbringing.
>   I asked around and could find very few odd middle numbers. My results:
>
>     * EVERY even-numbered peson was either, Black, Hispanic, Jewish, Asian,
>       Roman Catholic, Greek, or other Eastern European.
>     * EVERY odd-numbered person I found was white. A few were half Jewish
>       or half Roman Catholic.
>
>    Coincidence or not, I would like to know what other people have
>found about this and the results of their informal surveys.

Sorry, pal, but my middle number is 76 and my family is white protestants
from northern and western Europe as far back as 1742.  

Joel "Funny how that works" Furr
jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.food.cooking
From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Subject: Re: Don't tell them the recipe's from the Mrs. Field's cookbook
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Bohemians and Globetrotters, Unlimited
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 18:10:43 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.151140.23535@crd.ge.com>, meltsner@crd.ge.com (Kenneth J. Meltsner) writes:
|> 
|> [Please note cross-posting.]

Not modified, but followup-ers may want to restrict the number of groups.

|> [$250 story deleted]
|> 
|> There's an allusion to the $250 cookie story, by the way, in the
|> book's introduction, where it mentions that the recipes aren't the
|> same as those used in the bakeries, since those require professional
|> equipment and ingredients.

Pro. equip. I can understand, but what is pro. ingredients (part from
snake oil)? Is it a polite way of saying "secret ingredient", or do
pro. cooks have a license to buy things ordinary people must do without.

C'mon, I've been working with pro. chefs that never brought anything
special into the kitchen except the odd "secret spice mix". Ok, I do
have things in my kitchen that I have to buy at the chemist rather than
at the local supermarket, but - pro. ingredients???

---
YuNoHoo
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: The El (Was: Re: Conductivity of water <plus a story from Uncle Dave>)
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:36:44 GMT

In article <13698@optilink.COM> manley@optilink.COM (Terry Manley) writes:
>WEl I haven't been there since '79 and the brain tends to wipe out
>unpleasant memories!  I was undecided as to whether it was "L" or
>"El" - did it stand for "Electric" or "Elevated" or  "Loupe"
>as in "The Loupe".  For those of you that don't know, "The Loupe"
>is the downtown area of Chicago.

I thought "The Loupe" was just a corruption of "The Louvre", a reference
to the Art Institute, which is in the "Loupe".

Ted "out of the loop" Frank 

-- 
ted frank                     | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu 
standard disclaimers          | void where prohibited
the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.food.cooking
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: AFU Flan Cub
Organization: The Ohio State University
 <28126@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:42:39 GMT

twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)writes:
>Terry "Can't someone give me a straight answer w/o a flame?!" Chan

What do you expect?  Can't have rec.cooking w/o flame.

Jon "Home style, home made, made from scratch, fresh, char broiled" Papai
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Re: Federal Reserve Notes (Re: I Live to FAQ!)
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 05:10:32 GMT

In article <1993Jan2.030111.29752@midway.uchicago.edu> pynq@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>
>Since all the big bills were discontinued in 1969, are you saying that
>the largest bill you will see in circulation today (except of course for
>any pre-69's that people might still be circulating, but then again,
>that was, hmmm, 33 years ago...), is a C-note?

That's a good bet - when I worked for Bank of America, we routinely
sent all bills larger than $100 into our Los Angeles main branch which 
in turn sent them into the Federal Reserve. Sometimes we had customers
who said they wanted to collect $1000 bills, but few of them every were 
willing to write the check when the opportunity came.

I don't know if the government wants banks to do this, but banks basically
want to get rid of these large notes since 1) they can't use them with
customer transactions, and 2) large bills aren't needed for inter-bank
transactions since the Federal Reserve and wire transfers do a better job.
-- 
John Switzer               | "What we have here is a failure to 
                           | masticate."
Compuserve: 74076,1250     | -- MST3K's Dr. Clayton "Firebrand" Forrester, 
Internet: jrs@netcom.com   | after TV's Frank is unable to eat his 13th turkey.
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