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Deposit Slip Swatting
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
- Hits: 1925
I remembered this the other day, a conversation about banks and deposit slips, and I remembered how when I was young a friend of mine and I would pop over to the local bank and while making our own withdrawals or deposits would fill in the back of the deposit slips with notes like "This is a stickup. This is not a joke. Put the money into a bag..." or some such, return the deposit slips to the unused pile, and laugh and joke and imagine what would happen if somehow one suddenly slipped past, a customer didn't check the back of a slip...
...and one day it did happen, our bank, surrounded, they determined it to be a "hoax" but we got wise, stopped doing it, it was a lot less funny when there was a chance someone might get hurt...
Surfer: Teen Confronts Fear
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
- Hits: 1193
Apparently the next big thing, a movie apparently even better - or worse - than "The Room". I didn't know there was a competition, this is not the kind of stuff you can "plan", it just happens, I'll have to go with my son...
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Uncrazy
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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Saw with the Daughter. We lasted an hour, googled the ending, meh. I thought we were going to see "Hereditary", which looks good, but I was confused by the recent publicity "Uncrazy" had gotten, "IPhone 7...bleah bleah bleah" for "Scary as shit horror". My bad. The ending, as it turned out, was entirely predictable (as per Google) and so our time was better spent at the Sushi Bar.
The Bridegroom's Oak
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
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The quaint and romantic tale of the "Bridegroom's Oak", a tree in Germany where lovelorn singles hope to find their match by leaving notes for interested parties.
Sort of like the Craigslist of Yesteryear.
"The tree received so much mail that, in 1927, the German postal service, Deutsche Post, assigned the oak its own postcode and postman."
Link: http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180213-in-germany-the-worlds-most-romantic-postbox
Of related interest, Love Locks: Wiki
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