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   Greg Goss to David DeLaney   
   Re: Science fiction   
   12 Aug 13 08:10:12   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.books   
   From: gossg@gossg.org   
      
   David DeLaney  wrote:   
      
   >On 2013-08-12, 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....  :)   
   >   
   >He _did_ say it was in his earlier life...   
      
   I just browsed the bank history in wikipedia.  These Canadian banks go   
   way back, long before the founding of the country.  So the account   
   would have either been in "Toronto Bank" or "Dominion Bank of Canada",   
   in a bank that by 1872 was already a quarter century old.   
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