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  Bryan Price, 7 Apr 2005 @ 12:37pm

  
  

  I had a friend who used them..

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

    
    

    Re: I had a friend who used them..

    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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  Mark Murphy, 7 Apr 2005 @ 12:47pm

  
  

  Not Exactly

  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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  TJ, 7 Apr 2005 @ 5:14pm

  
  

  Never going to Best Buy

  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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  Silverjets, 7 Apr 2005 @ 7:22pm

  
  

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

  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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    ed, 8 Apr 2005 @ 12:11am

    
    

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

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

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      Anonymous Coward, 11 Apr 2005 @ 10:24am

      
      

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

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

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  Happygolucky, 30 May 2007 @ 8:46pm

  
  

  Little known fact

  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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  Anonymous Coward, 25 Nov 2013 @ 8:55pm

  
  

  Sue the HELL out of Best Buy, the Local police. no excuse WHATSOEVER for that sort of treatment. You own them after they do something THAT retarded.

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