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My score was 15

Payoff from $1 million bill is forgery charge

Heres a quick tip: If you are going to try and pass off fake money, you might want to first think about using a denomination that is actually made by the U.S. Treasury Department. Ranked by officers of the Covington Police Department (CPD) as of one of biggest boneheaded moves ever, a Porterdale woman allegedly tried to pay for more than $1,600 in merchandise at the Covington Wal-Mart Friday with a $1 million bill. While using counterfeit money is a serious crime that carries stiff penalties, CPD officers interviewed couldnt help but laugh and shake their heads in amazement.

According to the report, when the clerk was handed the bogus bill, she called over store manager Marshall Hunt who immediately recognized the bill as a fake. Apparently unfazed by the setback, Pike then allegedly tried to pay for the items with two Wal-Mart gift cards that had a combined total worth of $2.32. Still $1,598 short, Pike reportedly then asked Hunt if he could cash the bill, which the manager quickly refused to do.

Counterfeiting is a generations-old practice that has become harder to detect in recent years with advances in computer design and printing technology.
In this case, however, the fake bill was easy to detect, mainly because a $1 million bill has never been produced. According to the Treasury Departments Web site, the infamous $1 million dollar was created in 1982 when a Canadian firm began to sell the note for $1 as a collectors item. In fact, the fake bill created such a stir that the Secret Service actually investigated the case as a possible threat to national security.

A threat to national security???? Give me a friggin' break! The biggest threat to US security are all the dumbasses south of the canadian border…

Original link here: http://www.citizenonline.net/citizen/archive/article3A17C437A15D4A0FB28ECDFCECD59647.asp

Some of you may already know that I have an archive of amusing comic strips here. If not, now you do. I dusted off my perl hacking skills and tweaked it a bit. Strips that I add now show up highlighted in the table, so that way, my faithful readers (snort!) will be able to quickly see new ones that tickle my fancy :D

Here's another little comic. Remember, corndogs^† ease the pain. Good advice.

†For those who don't know, a corndog is also known as a pogo. Ya know, the weiner on a stick smothered in heart-clogging batter goodness…

Oh dear lord!

This is, BY FAR, the most disturbing thing I've ever seen. Click on the link, it'll open in a new window. Once the clip is loaded, press the yellow button to view, and turn the sound up.

Some background here: Rainbow was a well-respected british children's show in the 70s. The cast made this for themselves, as a private joke. This was never meant to be distributed, except it made it onto a blooper reel and the rest is history :)

Watch all of it. It's sooo wrong, on sooo many levels.

Imagine this. A potential client is here for a demo. Of course, the stuff that is to be demoed, which was running perfectly last week, is no longer working because someone has been mucking with the webserver settings. Of course, I notice this while my boss is doing his sales pitch, because nobody bothered to check that everything was kosher *before* the client comes (and since I found out that the client was coming 30 minutes before he actually comes in the office, I can say that this should have been a big case of notmyproblemitis)

Frantically, I go in and start fixing stuff that's been broken without anybody bothering to tell me. I almost had to resort to troubleshooting rule #1, but I got everything up and running without the client ever noticing *buffs nails on shirt*

I rule, that is all.

Click on the thumbnail to open a bigger version in another window.

Had a drink with eniran after work tonight, and I finally got to talk to her girl. “You're insane, I like you” was my favourite quote of that conversation. She sounds like a really cool person, and i can't wait to meet her. Spent the whole time at Hurleys talking about amusing topics, mostly revolving around naughty stuff. She's a natural storyteller, and she had me in stiches. T'was grand.

Came back to my place to watch Being John Malkhovich, a profoundly disturbed movie. A movie that talks about hermaphrodism and lesbian witches has to be cool.

Off to bed now, g'night.

Edit: Another quote from the movie that had us giggling like idiots: “my spunk is like manna from heaven”.

Does anybody remember this? I just ran across it today, and it's been a while since I've seen it :)

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My website is getting 1 GB of traffic a day. That means I'm going to completely clobber the monthly bandwidth allocation I paid for. Ouch, that's gonna hurt…