Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for September 29, 2016

Hit with a Highball Slider,Screwdriver(highball), Jell-O gelatin(slider)Know a sharp shooter when you see one.

It’s much easier now. The machine will reject their money if their card is no good or if the account to which it is attached has insufficient funds.If you still use cash, they will sometimes use a little pen that writes amber but turns dark if the bill is on the wrong sort of paper.Counterfeiting is so good today that it is difficult to detect a bad bill without special training to learn what a real bill is supposed to look like in great detail.

In preparation for employment at the military souvenir shops..

Operation Bernhard was the code name of a secret Nazi plan devised during the Second World War. It was the largest counterfeiting operation in the history of economic warfare.Barnard’s Star is a very-low-mass red dwarf about six light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Ophiuchus.There is no obvious connection between the two.Heck, man… they aren’t even spelled the same!

We’re better at detecting fake politicians. Trouble is, we stillkeep putting them in office!

Are those Waves, or WACs, or what?

Detecting fake cash? Pffft. That’s easy.

Detecting fake commenters? Now THAT takes talent.*

* AND a top secret Operation.**

** Hint: It’s not Bernhard

BREAKING NEWS!Operation [Not Bernhard] has eliminated its first suspect:

After you purchase a “real” product or service with “fake” money… does the product or service then become “fake?” or does the “fake” money become “real?”

Back in the days when groupies were organized.

I think I’ve only paid cash for something a couple of times this year. With Apple Pay, I use my phone to complete the transaction more often than the physical card. With points on the card and always paying the full bill, sometimes with those points, yet I still can’t decide whether I’m living in great times or interesting times.

For the last half of Newton’s adult life, 30 years, he was warden of the Royal Mint as well as Master of the Mint.Despite counterfeiting being considered high treason, punishable by hanging, drawing and quartering, convicting even the most flagrant criminals could be extremely difficult. Undaunted, Newton conducted more than 100 cross-examinations of witnesses, informers, and suspects between June 1698 and Christmas 1699. He himself gathered much of the evidence he needed to successfully prosecute 28 coiners.

It should be noted for no obvious reason that the orbital period of Saturn is 29.6 years.This is, coincidentally, the age at which a Rabbi(t) may take a position, and the minimum age necessary for a candidate to be elected to the U.S. Congress. It is also the time between major upheavals in Libya, of all places.Again, for no obvious reason.

Not the 29.6, obviously, but the rounded number of 30.I did celebrate my Saturnian birthday, though.

I have heard people say that they got counterfeit money from bank ATMs, and when they took it back to the bank, they would not accept it.

My twenty-dollar bills get scrutinized every time I go to the grocery (held up to the light, as though seeing the threading were a sure diagnostic, about which I’m agnostic).But I am reassured by seeing uniformed uniform cashiers from my very youthful years….My aunt was, however, a Marine in WW II, not a cashier nor, coltish1, a Wave or Wac. Semper Fi!