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jimbow8   09-13-2006, 03:56 PM
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Paige Wrote:There was the same thing in Criss Cross when Jack got paid in thousand dollar bills. At the time, I just chalked it up to a metaphore or something.

PS
Since then, I've been work in a bank, and you'd be suprised how many people still ask for their money in throusand dollar bills.
Aren't these type of things one of the reasons for an editor?

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Scott Miller   09-13-2006, 04:09 PM
#12
Apparently none of you play Monopoly. They got $1,000 bills and bigger.

Scott

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webby   09-13-2006, 04:38 PM
#13
According to the Federal Reserve's web site (http://www.federalreserve.gov/generalinf...cur.htm#11):

[INDENT]"On July 14, 1969, the Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve System announced that currency notes in denominations of $500, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 would be discontinued immediately due to lack of use. Although they were issued until 1969, they were last printed in 1945. These notes are legal tender and may be found in circulation today; however, most are probably in the hands of collectors."[/INDENT]

So while the use of $1000 bills is unusual, it's still perfectly legitimate. Of course, Jack knows currency so he would be well aware of this. Wink

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jimbow8   09-13-2006, 04:44 PM
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webby Wrote:According to the Federal Reserve's web site (http://www.federalreserve.gov/generalinf...cur.htm#11):

[INDENT]"On July 14, 1969, the Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve System announced that currency notes in denominations of $500, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 would be discontinued immediately due to lack of use. Although they were issued until 1969, they were last printed in 1945. These notes are legal tender and may be found in circulation today; however, most are probably in the hands of collectors."[/INDENT]

So while the use of $1000 bills is unusual, it's still perfectly legitimate. Of course, Jack knows currency so he would be well aware of this. Wink
Yes, he knows that they'd stick out like a sore thumb and probably raise red flags.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft
webby   09-13-2006, 04:47 PM
#15
jimbow8 Wrote:Yes, he knows that they'd stick out like a sore thumb and probably raise red flags.

Think so? How long was it before any of us noticed? :p

As Paige noted earlier in this thread:
Paige Wrote:I've been work in a bank, and you'd be suprised how many people still ask for their money in throusand dollar bills.

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It's Thirteen O'Clock
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"I said, Hey Senorita - that's astute, I said, why don't we get together and call ourselves an institute?" --Paul Simon
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"In the final analysis, the last line of defense in support of freedom and the Constitution consists of the people themselves." -- Ron Paul

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jimbow8   09-13-2006, 05:16 PM
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webby Wrote:Think so? How long was it before any of us noticed? :p

As Paige noted earlier in this thread:
I DID know that there were no $1000 bills in circulation. I did NOT catch it when I just reread Legacies. I WOULD be VERY wary of taking them, probably wouldn't take them. It's also one thing to read it in a novel and another thing for it to happen in real life (obviously! Wink).

Did Paige mention how many times she has agreed and given any out?

Paige, if a person came into a bank with 15 one thousand dollar bills, is the teller required to at the very least contact a manager?

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Blake   09-13-2006, 05:27 PM
#17
Scott Miller Wrote:Apparently none of you play Monopoly. They got $1,000 bills and bigger.

Monopoly is also a tool of the Otherness.

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Dr. Trilobite   09-13-2006, 06:25 PM
#18
In the 11th novel, Jack has to stop the Dormentalists from getting Park Place.
KRW   09-13-2006, 08:42 PM
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fpw Wrote:[SIZE="3"]I had no idea. WHen I was growing up I heard talk of thousand-dollar bills (even ten-thousand-dollar bills). Never knew they'd been withdrawn.[/SIZE]

Nor I! My finances are such that when I make a withdrawl, a hundred is the biggest bill I can look forward to. (sigh)Big Grin
Paige   09-13-2006, 09:04 PM
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jimbow8 Wrote:Paige, if a person came into a bank with 15 one thousand dollar bills, is the teller required to at the very least contact a manager?

Without a doubt. A teller is required to contact a supervisor or at the very least another more experienced teller if he or she even has an *inkling* of a problem.

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Death Talks About Life Neil Gaiman
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