[SOC] SOC material

[Jan Clute]

Try passing Sacajawea dollar coins. No one believes those.
She could have tried to pass it off as a British thousand Euro note
(on the reasoning that since a thousand million is a billion, or is a
billion
a trillion, so then a thousand must be a million. But then again, of course,
whose is whose, and which way did that go anyway... ah, phooey, I have a
headache now. Later).

73 Jan N0AAA SOC-389
----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek Wills" <oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu>
To: <soc@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 7:36 PM
Subject: [SOC] SOC material


> >>COVINGTON, Georgia (AP) -- A Georgia woman who tried to use
> >a fake $1 million bill to buy $1,675 worth of merchandise at
> >Wal-Mart was arrested, and police later found two more of the
> >bills in her purse.
>
>    I think even a Wal-Mart employee might have trouble counting
>    out $998,325 change.   A quick-thinking one would have said
>    "would you like the change in 700s?"
>
>    Tad K7VVV once sent me a hilarious story about someone trying
>    unsuccessfully to get places to accept (real) $2 notes.  The
>    person had stuck a wad of them together, glued at one end, and
>    peeled them off, one by one.
>
> Derek aa5bt soc #294
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