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MarleysGh0st wrote:

themanwho wrote:My Macroeconomics professor announced last week that he will pay anyone in class $1.25 for any "Where's George" stamped bill they bring in. He's fascinated by them.

Uhhhh, did he just make a deal to go broke?

Or do the WG bills have to come from somewhere other than his students?

LOL....I've got one laying here beside my computer that my son brought in. The guy will have to send me an additional 45 cents for postage though if he wants it. Took the bill 3 years to get from San Antonio to DFW.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

themanwho wrote:My Macroeconomics professor announced last week that he will pay anyone in class $1.25 for any "Where's George" stamped bill they bring in. He's fascinated by them.

Uhhhh, did he just make a deal to go broke?

Or do the WG bills have to come from somewhere other than his students?

He'd make a tidy profit if his students came across a lot of stamped Andys......

I ask others to find wilds for me, but I only pay face value for them. I don't want to find out where they've been that bad....

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AJ is in Lakewood, CA, and has big plans for this evening!

I noticed the bill in my wallet. I got it out of the ATM at Chase Bank in Lakewood, CA in April, 2012. It is in very good condition. I plan on spending it tonight when I take my wife out to a romantic dinner at Taco Bell.

MarleysGh0st wrote:AJ is in Lakewood, CA, and has big plans for this evening!

I noticed the bill in my wallet. I got it out of the ATM at Chase Bank in Lakewood, CA in April, 2012. It is in very good condition. I plan on spending it tonight when I take my wife out to a romantic dinner at Taco Bell.

As long as all she ends up hugging is him and not the toilet at the end of the night!

Mini-me has taken to eating those Tacos Locos combos after his away games, to no ill effects. He did ask me to make tacos the other night because the Taco Hell ones lack, you know, meat...

Whenever I clicked to go to WG to check out a hit in this thread, there was a banner from CafePress with ES artwork on it!

Cool!

christie1111 wrote:Whenever I clicked to go to WG to check out a hit in this thread, there was a banner from CafePress with ES artwork on it!

Cool!

If only that showed up for everyone, and not just those who happened by there.....

It's cute when it tries to sell me my own artwork....

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I had my first international hit today.

pcmaxey wrote:I had my first international hit today.

From George's itinerary, he'll be earning a lot of frequent flyer miles!

pcmaxey wrote:I had my first international hit today.

Cool! I think my first International hit was in GB as well....

George gripe while I'm in this thread: I noticed the guy in front of me at the soda machine in work last night put in a bill that had a red circular stamp around the Treasury seal..... meaning it wasn't one of mine. Couldn't stop him in time to keep the machine from eating it up forever. Someone lost a hit.....

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Randy Cassingham chose www.wheresgeorge.com as his Bonzer Site of the week today.

littlebeast13 wrote:George gripe while I'm in this thread: I noticed the guy in front of me at the soda machine in work last night put in a bill that had a red circular stamp around the Treasury seal..... meaning it wasn't one of mine. Couldn't stop him in time to keep the machine from eating it up forever. Someone lost a hit.....

D'oh! That could have been one of mine!

MarleysGh0st wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:George gripe while I'm in this thread: I noticed the guy in front of me at the soda machine in work last night put in a bill that had a red circular stamp around the Treasury seal..... meaning it wasn't one of mine. Couldn't stop him in time to keep the machine from eating it up forever. Someone lost a hit.....

D'oh! That could have been one of mine!

Or mine.

Or any of a large number of people.

My George Score passed the 900 threshhold

You have entered 3,100 Bills worth $14,954
Bills with hits: 416 Total hits: 475
Hit rate: 13.42% Slugging Percentage: 15.32% (total hits/total bills)
George Score: 900.08
Your rank (based on George Score) is #3,620
(out of 40,107 current users with a George Score. [90.97 Percentile])
Your State Rank in Texas is: 145 out of 8,898 [98.37]

After 2 1/2 years on the road, George needed some coffee in Eugene, making Oregon my 41st state!

You have entered 6,084 Bills worth $32,879
Bills with hits: 738 Total hits: 826
Hit rate: 12.13% Slugging Percentage: 13.58% (total hits/total bills)
George Score: 966.97
Your rank (based on George Score) is #2,821
(out of 40,137 current users with a George Score. [92.97 Percentile])
Your State Rank in New York is: 162 out of 8,372 [98.06]

Las Cruces, NM!

My 42nd state came pretty quickly after my 41st!

Now on to the high plains, George!

MarleysGh0st wrote:Las Cruces, NM!

My 42nd state came pretty quickly after my 41st!

Now on to the high plains, George!

42 states was where I got stuck for almost a full year. Good luck....

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Here is a George that I hit today.

Two years to the day since I hit my last bill.

Dang it! A hit in Fairbanks, AK, but I don't get credit for it because it was given away before the hit was entered.

Then there's this bill, which I just know is trying to find it's way to christie! Shelton's only about 10 miles away, right?

MarleysGh0st wrote:Dang it! A hit in Fairbanks, AK, but I don't get credit for it because it was given away before the hit was entered.

I absolutely HATE the alternate hit option that was added a couple years ago... before that, most people would have just entered the bill as a legit hit anyway. I don't know why Hank is so OCD about whether you still have physical possession of the bill or not as long as it's entered in reasonable time...

One of the 5 Illinois counties I need to complete my state bingo has an alternate hit. I fucking hate them....

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littlebeast13 wrote:I absolutely HATE the alternate hit option that was added a couple years ago... before that, most people would have just entered the bill as a legit hit anyway. I don't know why Hank is so OCD about whether you still have physical possession of the bill or not as long as it's entered in reasonable time...

George has been wandering for two and a half years! Why shouldn't I get credit for the hit, just because he might have moved on from Fairbanks in the last few hours/days/weeks?

Those crazy Aussies...

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littlebeast13 wrote:Those crazy Aussies...

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Good on ya, mate!

I wonder if they accept Georges down in Sydney?

MarleysGh0st wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:Those crazy Aussies...

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Good on ya, mate!

I wonder if they accept Georges down in Sydney?

I don't know, but it would have been cool had that been my 10,000th hit. I'm currently 15 away by my total (I think my official counter shows me 18 away, but I count hits that were administrator deleted long after I had recorded them)....

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MarleysGh0st wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:Those crazy Aussies...

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Good on ya, mate!

I wonder if they accept Georges down in Sydney?

I was there in 1993, and with a few exceptions, they did not accept $US. But if you didn't have any Australian money your last one or two days in the country, and your sob story was good enough, and you really wanted whatever it was you wanted to buy, and they really wanted to sell it to you, you could use a George or 20. This was almost 20 years ago, but I don't think they've made it illegal for residents to possess U.S. currency.

An international hit and a Canadian hit within 24 hours!!!

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