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wabi, gimme some S&H Green Stamps so I can finish filling out my book, I've been trying to finish this one since 1974
"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." -- Thomas Jefferson
We are all Rhodesians now.
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I can remember business trip expense account and Boeing in the 1970s impounding employee frequent flyer miles.
I saw armed Boeing guards come into engineering to throw out the head of software for an expense account issue.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
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Army made us buy them, I always cashed them out when I got to my bank. I remember that in BCT/AIT but not afterwards.
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I remember having to get a Diner's Club card when I worked for the FDIC.
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I just found a stack of them about a year ago. They were 30 years old and almost a grand... lost a lot to inflation!
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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Used to be a real gem using one in some place like a Wendy’s
Foucking idiots all the way up to the manager thought it was Monopoly money. They acted just as stupid with $2 bills.
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Before credit cards. And having to pay a yearly fee for the card? You're still paying a yearly you just don't pay it directly to the the CC company. You pay it through all the vendors who have raised their prices enough to cover that yearly fee. Remember when they first came out credit cards for gasoline and they had a price for cash or credit.
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I didn't leave home without them.
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Yes when I first got out of college I worked for IBM and that was the only way you could take long business trips
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Traveled a lot for work. Travelers checks destroyed my signature.
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I was in Minnesota last week for a funeral, stopped at a Holiday gas station and had to wait for a young woman to write a check for her gas. I haven’t seen a personal check since before the year 2000!
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I had a friend that his brother made big money working in construction jobs traveling all over. We came home and he was burning a whole bunch of travelers checks. We asked him what he was doing. He said I only keep enough money to get me through his next pay check and burns the rest up in travelers checks. Then later we found out he was going through a divorce and there is no way to track the travelers checks. After the divorce was over, he would present the stubs and get reimbursed for all the travelers checks he burned up. I had never ever heard of anything like that. He had a bunch of money then. SMART
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Lots of refugees used traveler's cheques to get get their assets out of Kuwait after Iraq invaded. They'd convert assets into AmEx travellers cheques. Then burn the cheques. They'd smuggle the cheque receipts across the border for full redemption of their money. Better than gold.
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Before credit cards. And having to pay a yearly fee for the card? You're still paying a yearly you just don't pay it directly to the the CC company. You pay it through all the vendors who have raised their prices enough to cover that yearly fee. Remember when they first came out credit cards for gasoline and they had a price for cash or credit. Increasing numbers of local businesses are charging extra if you use plastic. I love it. Let them pay for what they get. Free plastic purchases is no different than some people getting 20oz and some getting 15 when paying for 1# of burger
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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I was in Minnesota last week for a funeral, stopped at a Holiday gas station and had to wait for a young woman to write a check for her gas. I haven’t seen a personal check since before the year 2000! A check is more secure than having your credit card float up into the cloud and be taken. Last week, I had to change my Verizon password because someone had gotten into their system and mined account info. CC numbers, SS numbers, addresses. Verizon yet, one of the largest computer intelligence companies in the word. Some shooting clubs would rather take a check than pay CC fees. Checks are far from being a thing of the past.
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laissez les bons temps rouler
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wabi, gimme some S&H Green Stamps so I can finish filling out my book, I've been trying to finish this one since 1974 You be needing a new Electrolux aye?
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I was cleaning out some old luggage the other day and found a $20 Travelor's Check that probably came from a hunting trip back in 1984. I need to get that to my bank and cash it in.
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I guess the last time I used them was in the 80's.
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Went on a church trip as a kid. I was given a couple of Traveler's Checks so a knot headed kid wouldn't lose cash.
Second trip to Kodiak, AK, one of the group was a newby to AK. The guy that put the trip together asked Jack if he had exchanged his money to Alaskan money? Jack almost missed the boat the next morning! He was trying to find an exchange to covert his money to Alaskan currency! LOL! Next best question was when a lady asked the captain, "What's the elevation here? I'm having trouble breathing."
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