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I'm now itching to get back into penny collecting. It was very relaxing and fun to sort through a batch of pennies, looking for a new find. I doubt I'll find anything rare enough to be worth any money, but it'd still be something fun to do.
*admires 1943 D steel penny* It really is pretty. It's only worth $0.75 at most, but it's pretty Posts: 1805 | Registered: Jun 1999
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*perplexed* Mine's not an Indian Head penny. Am I misremembering the date? Now I have to go find it...
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I have a couple $2 bills in my little bank at home.
My dad told me the story of when he was in elementary school and got into an argument with another boy about the existance of $2 bills. My dad claimed they were real and the other boy didn't believe him. So they asked the teacher. She sided with the other boy. Posts: 486 | Registered: Feb 2005
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Something like that happened to me in seventh grade math. We learned how to find the area of a circle and the topic of п came up. I raised my hand and mentioned, as my father had taught me, that the digits of п neither terminate nor repeat. The kids asked the teacher if that was true and he said "Well, п is 22/7, so check it out for yourself."
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My screen makes that pi look like "n". It took me a sec to figure out what you were talking about. I couldn't figure out what the variable n had to do with circles.
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By the way, A guy I used to work with who once tended bar told me that a two dollar bill left as a tip is the highest compliment you con give to a bartender. Just thought you all might like to know. He was a really cool guy, and when he moved away, I gave him a card with a two in it.
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rivka, I'm assuming that's satire, and as such, it's brilliant.
But it's a little too close to reality for me to be certain.
First of all, --
*GAH* ::suddenly realizes his copy of The History of PI has been removed from his classroom::
okay, from my vague recollections coupled with some googling, then--
First of all, many fundamentalists have historically rejected the irrational value of pi as heretical because of a that and other bible references suggesting a value of 3.
Apart from that, the Indiana legislature did attempt to legislate a different (nonbiblical) rational value of pi in 1897. This value was based on the work of an ameteur mathematician who had figured out that all those stupid ivory tower mathematicians were mixed up. They were in a hurry to pass his bill, because he promised them that if they were the first, they could use his value of pi royalty-free. (Excuse me, what does God need with a starship? Oops. Wrong question. What I meant to ask was, since when do we have to pay royalties for "facts"? Because if nobody has patented 9.8 m/s/s as the acceleration due to gravity, I'm staking my claim now. And I'll register 10 too, while I'm at it. )
Anyway, this bill actually passed in the state house, and nearly passed in the state senate, before they came to their senses and tabled it indefinitely.
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Just for the record, please don't be mad if you go to the bank and can't get a $2. We only get them from other customers who deposit them, mostly businesses. If your bank doesn't get a lot of business deposits, they probably won't have any and never regularly. Credit Unions serve almost no businesses so don't even bother there. We never get anything interesting.
This guy is getting bills special ordered from the Fed. He's buying them in whole straps, probably a thousand dollars at a time. You could work out some kind of deal with your bank, but it wouldn't be cost effetive, and it would take about a week or two for the order to come in. (Nothing irks me more than folks who come in just before Christmas wanting stuff like that and need it today.)
As for the cops being suspicious cause the bills were sequential, I can see that. It's a classic counterfeiting blunder. But I've called Secret Service before. It doesn't take more than a few minutes to verify the bills. I wonder if he got mouthy with the cops and they were jerking him around. Definately fishy behavior from the cops.
As for the cashier, I can understand the case of the IRS not wanting to take a thousand dollar late payment in pennies. That's a guy just being obnoxious. But 57 $2s are not a lot of money. I hope her supervisor had a few strong words for her when all was said and done. Especially considering the bad press she caused the company.
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I payed my rent in unrolled pennies once. I took pictures as well, when I dumped them on his desk.
All he had to do was tell me I had to roll them and I would have been screwed, but he was so mad he kicked me off the property. Then he lied about the fact that I had payed him in housing court, so I trotted out my picture, he the whole court burst out laughing. I had a witness and oictures to prove that he had throw me out too, so he got busted for lying, and I walked.
Without a doubt the most evil thing I have ever done....so far.
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We were waiting for an early-morning blood test once, and needed breakfast, so my mom and I wound up at Denny's. (*shudders*) The service was so slow, even though we were the only ones in there, that my mom paid a 10% tip-- in pennies. (She always had a whole change purse full of them.) Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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quote:Make a $100 dollar payment in 100 $1 checks?
I've never signed a lease that didn't require that rent be paid in the form of a single check or money order. This is an exception to the legal tender rule - they can refuse cash, pennies, or separate checks- but if they accept another form of payment they can't use the form of payment provision to make you pay again or claim you didn't pay.
Absent specification of how the payment must be made, though, I think you can probably get away with pennies. It might be hard to get a receipt, though - he can make you wait while he counts them.
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