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To: sharktrager

but you should at least leave a note or something....

Here's a story of a dead widow professor.
After her death there's an auction. My professor was getting started teaching here and decided to go for inexpensive furniture and knick knacks. Boxes and boxes of books from her basement study went for .50 a box. Anyhow, our professor happened to buy some of her stuff and on a whim bought a box or two of the deceased prof's old books for a buck.

He said that he took 'em home and didn't think about it for a week or two. Then he looks through them... each one had a bank note of varying denominations. Some were very old, larger and different than what we are using today. Apparently she had socked away money like this since the 1910's.

Needless to say, He hunted around like mad but the rest of the boxes were taken to the dump and disposed of....D'oh!

That's one of two Dead Professor stories I rememebr.


79 posted on 05/30/2005 3:30:06 PM PDT by Will_Zurmacht
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To: Will_Zurmacht
Older paper money was beautiful and not only larger than bills today, but filled with pictures; not just dead presidents, as ours are.
112 posted on 05/30/2005 5:08:44 PM PDT by nopardons
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