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|    Snidely to All    |
|    Re: Can anyone spare a quarter?    |
|    01 Oct 20 11:48:20    |
      From: snidely.too@gmail.com              hymie! asserted that:       > Banks: Woe is me! There is a nationwide coin shortage, and there is nothing       > I can do to resolve this issue.       >       > Me: I have a jar of coins. Can I come into your branch and use the       > coin-couting machine to deposit them?       >       > Banks: No. Drive-thru only, no coins aloud. Oh, what will I do? There is       > a coin shortage and I can't do anything about it.              My credit union allows people into at least some of their lobbies, and       I turned in $19 in coins a while back. I'm not spending as much time       in laundries these days, so I need fewer coins.              /dps              --       There's nothing inherently wrong with Big Data. What matters, as it       does for Arnold Lund in California or Richard Rothman in Baltimore, are       the questions -- old and new, good and bad -- this newest tool lets us       ask. (R. Lerhman, CSMonitor.com)              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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