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   tbree said, 3 months ago

   What a bunch of Bill-oney.

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   wndrwrthg said, 3 months ago

   A rather bill-ous jest.

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   BC13 said, 3 months ago

   I gues the rest were just small bills? Or were they BIG bills?

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   rshive said, 3 months ago

   Small ones. The big ones are too hard to carry.

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   FishStix said, 3 months ago

   I once had a sweeper truck for parking lots in my business. It amazed me how often I’d find coins and bills in shopping center parking lots. I found hundreds of dollars during that time.

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   Stuart Gathman said, 3 months ago

   In riding my bike 7 miles each way to work over the last 5 years, I’ve collected an average of of 1¢ every 3 miles from the streets and sidewalks. That’s 5¢ a day. The biggest denomination so far was a $1 bill. Hey, a positive cash flow, however tiny, is better than a negative one.

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   whmIII said, 3 months ago

   Crumpled or not…every little bit helps.

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   Allan Claus said, 3 months ago

   Stuart - people wonder why I’m ALWAYS looking down … I’ve found $5 several times, and $100 once… the $100 was ripped in half, but I took it to a bank, and changed the mighty Brown Bill for 5 Green Bills.

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   Ronshua said, 3 months ago

   Stuart – I’d say you are getting payed for exercising , that’s way cool .

   I lived in an interior Alaskan hamlet of 400 souls . 200 Indian mostly Athabaskan & 200 every body else mostly Caucasian . 3 parking lots of snow 6 months a year . The one country story , US Post office & the local watering hole . That snow is pushed to the bounders of the lots all winter . Come the melt a 3 fold BONANZA for the kids smart enough to get there first . One year 2 of my children picked up over $40.00 from one & it had been high graded the day before .

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    Doctor Toon said, 3 months ago

    I stop and pick up everything, even pennies.
    Most I ever found was a $100 bill in the bushes in my front yard.
    I just looked up and said thanks.

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    Silverpearl said, 3 months ago

    The Social Security income creeps up; and the bills due leap up.

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    yyyguy said, 3 months ago

    a story about King Clancy when he refereed in the NHL (back in the 1940’s) had him walking out of Chicago Stadium with a league exec after a game, and suddenly bending down to pull a $10 bill from a mud puddle. the exec’s comment was, “16000 people had the nerve to call you blind?!”

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    BC13 said, 3 months ago

    yyyguy

    I am convinced that sports officials are not blind - they see what they want to see - it’s like selective hearing.

    A

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    Joe Allen Doty said, 3 months ago

    Social Security Pension income merely “creeps up” due the annual Cost Of Living Adjustment, aka COLA, given each year.

    When the COLA is approved before the end of the year for those on federal fixed incomes, all a COLA theoretically does in ensure that your income next year will have the very same purchasing power as the current year.

    But, while congressmen, Senators and Representatives, might call a COLA a raise, it is not one at all.

    A real raise would be more income in addition to the COLA.

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    yyyguy said, 3 months ago

    J A D very true. my Dad’s pension has not increased his buying power one bit. fortunately, it is large enough, and his needs simple enough, that he’s able to live comfortably on what he gets in pension income.

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    yyyguy said, 3 months ago

    BC13 it isn’t exactly selective seeing. they call it “game management” and tell players, coaches, and others not to confuse “not calling” with “not seeing” what happened. there are times when an infraction should be (and is) ignored. we were always taught that the rule book was bound in paperback because it was supposed to be flexible.
    (as EMET knows, i spent 32 years officiating amateur hockey - and did it quite well, if i say so myself.)

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    BC13 said, 3 months ago

    yyyguy

    Well, it’s been a long time since I’ve watched a hockey game, but I certainly wasn’t a fan of Kerry Frazer and I doubt he made many friends in the old Forum. He was/is the worst. He managed f-up almost every Canadiens game he ever officiated.

    Certainly, there have been enough NFL officials that have landed in hot water so much of late. Frazer probably would not have lasted long in the NFL with today’s scrutiny.

    In case you haven’t figured it out already I’m not only an armchair quarterback, I’m an armchair critic of the zebras (that goes for umpires as well).

    A

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    Ushindi said, 3 months ago

    My brother, during his high school years, had a part-time job cleaning up a movie theater after closing. He had more income from the money that people dropped on the floor while sitting down than he made in wages. He loved that job - being the only one there late at night, it was all his (the owner was a family friend and told him he could keep whatever he found, which of course he did).

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    Saucy1121 said, 3 months ago

    I also pick up all change on the ground. It goes into a special piggy bank and at the end of the year to the local SPCA. Can be as much as $20.

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    OldHipster said, 3 months ago

    Is there a penalty for not paying them hundred dollar crumpled up bills?

21. 

    benbrilling said, 3 months ago

    Aw heck, all birds have bills.

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    alife said, 3 months ago

    I’M ALWAYS looking down, Watch out for “Gifts” of dogs or… if I go it the park. I Find ¢¢ mostly look at it as another bit of bending and stretching, I also pick up discarded batteries and dispose of them properly…