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   Greg Goss to Your Name   
   Re: Science fiction   
   12 Aug 13 00:43:06   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.books   
   From: gossg@gossg.org   
      
   YourName@YourISP.com (Your Name) wrote:   
      
   >Joe Pfeiffer  wrote:   
   >>Greg Goss  writes:   
   >>>   
   >>> In my earlier life, three times I opened a Bank of Montreal account   
   >>> because of location, and each time, I eventually closed the account in   
   >>> fury.  The last time I moved my account to TD in 1872, and I'm still   
   >>> with TD.   
   >>   
   >>That has got to be some sort of record for customer loyalty....  :)   
   >   
   >This is the Science Fiction newsgroup, so he's obviously either a time   
   >traveller or a long-lived alien visitor.  ;-)   
      
   Go back to 1872 and deposit one cent in an interest bearing savings   
   account.  When I stepped out of the machine in 2013, I discovered that   
   my bank introduced service fees and wiped out all the savings.   
      
   I managed to even miss the typo when it was pointed out like this.   
   --   
   We are geeks.  Resistance is voltage over current.   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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