06-10-2009, 02:29 PM
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Backup Goalie
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Woops!
They say one person's trash is another person's treasure. Well this quote could never be more true!
http://www.calgaryherald.com/Life/Du...361/story.html
"She had bought a new mattress for her mother and, wanting the gift to be a surprise, threw away the old one. She then found out the decades-old mattress contained her mother's life savings."
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06-10-2009, 02:31 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Sec 216
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Workers are helping her search the garbage, but have found no sign of the cash so far.
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When will the elderly learn.
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06-10-2009, 02:31 PM
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Franchise Player
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There's is always money in the Banana Stand!
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06-10-2009, 02:31 PM
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One of the Nine
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Workers are helping her search the garbage, but have found no sign of the cash so far.
Riiiight. I bet they're "helping". Helping after hours with a flashlight.
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06-10-2009, 03:02 PM
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Franchise Player
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Yeah! Damn Italians!
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06-10-2009, 04:20 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Violating Copyrights
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Originally Posted by J pold
There's is always money in the Banana Stand!
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06-10-2009, 04:21 PM
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One of the Nine
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^Noooo!! You either get it or you don't. No hints!^
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06-10-2009, 04:26 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary
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Cant say I feel sorry for this one.
Possible a Darwin candidate if that makes her feel any better.
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06-10-2009, 06:19 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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Originally Posted by flip
When will the elderly learn.
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I know some of the older people in my family used to do this. They'd hide money all over the place... cookie jars, under floor boards, burried in the yard. You can't always trust banks and you never know when the Turks or Russians are going to invade... 
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06-10-2009, 06:21 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Shanghai
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Originally Posted by mykalberta
Cant say I feel sorry for this one.
Possible a Darwin candidate if that makes her feel any better.
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Jeez, that's harsh and judgmental. Seems like an innocent mistake to me, which just happened to cost an old woman her life savings. That's terrible.
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06-10-2009, 06:31 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: still in edmonton
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I know some of the older people in my family used to do this. They'd hide money all over the place... cookie jars, under floor boards, burried in the yard. You can't always trust banks and you never know when the Turks or Russians are going to invade... |
Or were brought up during the Great Depression.
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06-10-2009, 07:10 PM
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Redundant Minister of Redundancy
Self-Banned
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I know some of the older people in my family used to do this. They'd hide money all over the place... cookie jars, under floor boards, burried in the yard. You can't always trust banks and you never know when the Turks or Russians are going to invade... |
How many banks failed last year?
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06-11-2009, 03:35 PM
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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This is why I hate people who throw things away.
If you have a family member or a friend who has kept something for years and never thrown it away - IT IS NOT A HAPPY SURPRISE OR FAVOR OR ANYTHING for them for you to throw that item way without telling them.
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