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100 Billion Pennies
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Or, roughly 1 Billion dollars in lost pennies throughout the USA. Of course, the 1 billion dollars is face value only, rarer pennies will be more valuable, and so probably that figure is closer to a couple of billion dollars.
Source: The MegaPenny Project
Abuses of Authority
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- Category: Rants
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Fodder for more than a few lawsuits. Naturally, the Police and Bell (a data provider) are at the heart of it.
Link: CBC - You should have stayed at home, >> which rather naturally leads to >> Ottawa Police report rise in use of Force
Comment: Notice how the police prevaricate, instigate and then abuse a (by now) rather naturally hostile general public.
Link: Bell Issuing Huge Unexplained Bills >> Note how long it took the couple highlighted to get the bill adjusted. Not their fault, but their abundant time and effort required to remedy the error.
Yowayowa Camera Woman Diary
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- Category: Link of the day
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A Japanese woman who lives in Tokyo and takes pictures of herself levitating. Well, not exactly, but the intent is to capture that moment in the jump where she looks perfectly poised and as if she is truly levitating or flying. In some she's quite successful...
The Wedding
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- Category: Miscellany
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On Saturday half the restaurant is booked for a wedding.
The owner, he's optimistic that they'll be done early, "7:30" he tells us. I don't know, but I'm skeptical, most weddings I've seen go a lot later than that.
They've planned to arrive early and so the staff shows up early to set up the party. Then we eat, and the party begins to arrive in drips and drabs.
G, the Nephew and I are serving the dining room open to the general public, we've let the girls handle the wedding.
At 7:30 they still haven't been served their main courses. And by 12:00 midnight they're still there, drinking at the bar with the drunken staff members. There's the bridesmaid (being set up by the Owner with G, she's newly single - 25, and the owner confides "She wanted me...., but I'm married", and one is a little too discreet to observe that she's had enough to drink that she'd take pretty much anyone), from the tone of her remarks one gathers that she's looking hard for some revenge sex. G isn't fussed, he'll take what he can get....
And there's the bride's mother, also single and drunk and fondling G's ass, telling him how single she is and asking when he'll drive her home. G tries to look disinterested, he's not really but there's the feelings of the bridesmaid (a better deal all round) to consider...
12:30 and I'm done, it's been an extra-long day and G and the manager can close, the wedding guests, bridesmaids and mothers are still there waiting for G, for anyone really to get off work and give them a ride home. And while I should stay and help lock up, given the general level of sobriety this isn't a party that will end happy or anytime soon and so I bid them all goodnight and leave.
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