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   I had a friend who used them..

   

   Bryan Price, Apr 7th, 2005 @ 12:37pm

   
   

   exclusively for leaving tips at restaurants. He got a big kick out of it.
   
   Me, I would have dumped 114 SBAs on them. Much worse than $2 bills IMHO. Somebody would've really been bitching about the deposit that day.

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   Not Exactly

   

   Mark Murphy, Apr 7th, 2005 @ 12:47pm

   
   

   My read of the original forum post suggests that the problem was that the $2 bill ink smeared (I guess when marked with the currency-testing pen). So the clerks didn't recognize the $2, but that alone didn't justify the arrest, bringing in Secret Service, etc.

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   Re: I had a friend who used them..

   

   Oliver Wendell Jones, Apr 7th, 2005 @ 2:12pm

   
   

   I get a stack of them from the bank if I know I'm going to a strip club (i.e., bachelor party, out-of-town clients, etc) and use them instead of singles.
   
   In a dimly lit environment it's still obvious that they're American currency, but they're definately not $1 bills, so the girls treat you a little nicer.
   
   Saves you from having to tip them $5s or higher.

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   Never going to Best Buy

   

   TJ, Apr 7th, 2005 @ 5:14pm

   
   

   I have lost count of how many rotten stories I've seen about Best Buy. A Best Buy has finally opened up nearby, but no way I'm even going to check it out. With the way they profile and grill customers, discourage browsing, try to cheat customers out of rebates, and now having a customer arrested that they'd mistreated to begin with?! Is Best Buy trying to steal Microsoft's crown of most hated tech company?
   

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   Wait....back that up.....

   

   Silverjets, Apr 7th, 2005 @ 7:22pm

   
   

   For Baltimore County police, said spokesman Bill Toohey, "It's a sign that we're all a little nervous in the post-9/11 world."
   
   Someone please explain to me what paying in $2 bills (legal United States tender) has to do with 9/11?
   
   Is this now the "catch-all" excuse for stupidity?

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   Re: Wait....back that up.....

   

   ed, Apr 8th, 2005 @ 12:11am

   
   

   Every time you use a $2 bill, al-Qaeda wins.

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   Re: Wait....back that up.....

   

   Anonymous Coward, Apr 11th, 2005 @ 10:24am

   
   

   yeah & everytime I buy hydo pot grown in vermont I'm helping the terrorists too !

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   Little known fact

   

   Happygolucky, May 30th, 2007 @ 8:46pm

   
   

   The $2.00 bill was originally made to cover the $2 bet at the horse track. FACT.
   
   the fact that a whole town didn't know of the exsistance of them as legal tender goes to show you that "No child left behind act." might have been just a little to late in the making, maybe we should go back and get the ones we forgot.

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