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NO MONEY
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: August 13, 2003 11:51PM

I have no cash, and the bank want their pound of flesh. Anyone know any unconvincing cross-dressers who could help?



Post Edited (08-14-03 01:22)

PSD

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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Re: NO MONEY
Posted by: Intrigue (---.xavier.vic.edu.au)
Date: August 14, 2003 12:20AM

ban?

I would suggest an easy job - tutoring, provided you have the patience for small children.



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Those who forget the pasta are doomed to reheat it.

Re: NO MONEY
Posted by: kaz (139.134.57.---)
Date: August 14, 2003 12:51AM

I'm in a similar situation. Just paid power bill, telephone bill and car registration. Now the car insurance want their excess for the car I backed into as well, and are making legal noises if they don't get it. GAARR!


Re: NO MONEY
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: August 14, 2003 12:52AM

"Do what you want to do, be what you want to be. Just not near me."

'Especially if I'm just about to reverse...'?



PSD

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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Re: NO MONEY
Posted by: kaz (139.134.57.---)
Date: August 14, 2003 01:04AM

On a frosty morning in the school car park. Exactly.


Re: NO MONEY
Posted by: Simon (---.westsussex.gov.uk)
Date: August 14, 2003 01:14PM

On the only occasion when I had trouble with a bank about an unplanned overdraft (which was back while I was a student, because a mix-up delayed my grant...) I sent the branch manager a letter explaining how it really was a one-off event that wouldn't happen again and, because I was writing in a December, wishing him a "Merry Chrsitmas". He sent me a reply which basically said "OK, don't do it again..." and ended with "Happy New Year".

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[i]"God rot Botchkamos Istochnik!"[i]

Re: NO MONEY
Posted by: Sarah (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: August 14, 2003 01:23PM

I wouldn't advocate this as a regular source of income, but since this is an emergency, do you have any skills such as singing, dancing, juggling, playing an instrument, fire-eating, or anything else you could do in the street to persuade people to drop small change into your hat?

Failing that, you could always pick the one you're really bad at and see if they'll give you money to get you to stop doing it.



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

Re: NO MONEY
Posted by: KT (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: August 14, 2003 01:36PM

PSD - some of us might be persuaded to sponsor you to do something. Any suggestions? (opens floodgates and stands well back)

Re: NO MONEY
Posted by: Sarah (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: August 14, 2003 01:42PM

We could sponsor him to write a novel. It would give him an incentive to get it finished, and, you never know, it might even get published and make more money!



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

Re: NO MONEY
Posted by: Tracy (---.hyperion.com)
Date: August 14, 2003 01:43PM

He could call it, Stories from the Gutter.

Re: NO MONEY
Posted by: Sarah B (---.cable.ubr06.dudl.blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: August 14, 2003 10:26PM

I have no money either, if that's any consolation. Or a job. Though I am looking...

You could get people to pay for you to row them up the river. :)



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

Re: NO MONEY
Posted by: Skiffle (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: August 14, 2003 11:16PM

Can't you find a job working in a pub ?

Re: NO MONEY
Posted by: Intrigue (---.xavier.vic.edu.au)
Date: August 15, 2003 01:18AM

I keep seeing trucks that say:

"PFD Foodservices"

Buy 'em out PSD, and change the name!



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Re: NO MONEY
Posted by: kaz (139.134.58.---)
Date: August 15, 2003 01:39AM

Every time I see those trucks I think of PSD. It's really worrying.


Re: NO MONEY
Posted by: Simon (---.westsussex.gov.uk)
Date: August 15, 2003 12:10PM

Perhaps what we could sponsor PSD to do is emigrate to Australia?

(Only joking...)

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"God rot Botchkamos Istochnik!"

Re: NO MONEY
Posted by: Sarah B (---.cable.ubr06.dudl.blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: August 15, 2003 04:56PM

Can't you find a job working in a pun?



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

Re: NO MONEY
Posted by: kaz (139.134.58.---)
Date: August 16, 2003 01:43AM

Simon - Do NOT joke about such things! It lives in my nightmares as it is.


Re: NO MONEY
Posted by: Intrigue (---.vic.bigpond.net.au)
Date: August 16, 2003 07:42AM

Exactly! With skin that pale, he'd go straight to Tasmania.



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Re: NO MONEY
Posted by: kaz (139.134.58.---)
Date: August 17, 2003 03:57AM

Bite your tongue, Ingtrigue! He's too pale even for a Tassie Tan.


Re: NO MONEY
Posted by: Intrigue (---.vic.bigpond.net.au)
Date: August 17, 2003 07:38AM

Maybe he'd find happiness with the Fairy Penguins of Phillip Island.



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