Who is to say what value the picture is worth? If the man says it should be used to pay his bill, because it is valued at the amount in arrears, they should take it and clear his name of any debt owed. Think about it.

The money we use is just a promissory note. The people who issue it promise us that it is worth what they say. We take this as factual and run with it. We even try to get more of those promises. Why?

I say we have been force fed a line of bull for so long that we forget what it is we are doing here. The almighty promise of the dollar has us fooled. What is really important here? I say the picture of the spider.

S+F, I like this.

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hmm from what i have come to understand, i do not think david here is broke. seems to me like this company have provided him with something useless. he was just trying to get his point accross with some humor. read the last email that he sent.

This had me cracking up! The part I imagined was the person he was emailing and what they must have been thinking. I know if it was me I would be laughing, I mean how could you not. I have worked in bill collection and the things people tell you are sometimes out there but this is by far the funniest and most clever! Thanks for posting S&F!

How funny too that the guy who won refuses to pay...lol

[edit on 9/2/2009 by mblahnikluver]

I laughed so much I cried...a work of a mischevious genius!

This is the funniest post I've read since DOADOA posted about putting rockets on cats. Great post, btw.

Genius. Utterly genius. I laughed pretty hard after reading all the replies.

You can take it another way to. Seeing as she said lei currancy...well, the American dollar is a fiat currency. What's the difference?

We have our money and believe to to be worth something. In actuality, its worthless. Only worth the value printed on it. Not backed by say, gold.

This is absolutely fantastic!

I for one, would have accepted the 8 legged spider as payment. I then would have paid his bill for him for the simple fact that I use my money for entertainment purposes only, and he was definately entertaining!

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hilarious, i absolutely loved this. tyvm

I find myself in a similar situation lacking money and recently being scaled back from my job so I have decided to go into business for myself in the world of photography.

The following is a beautiful picture of a blurry hand which is personally appraised at 1,000 dollars US.



You can U2U me to arrange payment for the personal copyright

i to came across this years ago, i laughed very very hard the first time.

i did a search but i couldn't find his follow up to that e-mail, in which he deals with another bill issue.

its just as funny, i hope someone finds it.

S&F. If I could give more I would! I'm glad you chose to share this with us. It brightened my mood significantly. I believe good humor is sometimes essential in life. By the time I got to the part where he says he is time travelling, and then 3 minutes later he is back, I couldn't stop chuckling.

Originally posted by LiveForever8

Can I have my drawing of a spider back then please.

Regards, David.


From: Jane Gilles
Date: Thursday 9 Oct 2008 11.42am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Overdue account

Dear David,
You emailed the drawing to me. Do you want me to email it back to you?

Yours sincerely, Jane Gilles


From: David Thorne
Date: Thursday 9 Oct 2008 11.56am
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Overdue account

Dear Jane,

Yes please.

Regards, David.


From: Jane Gilles
Date: Thursday 9 Oct 2008 12.14pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Overdue account

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Brilliant although at this point he missed a trick....
Technically he asked her to send it back, she copied it and pasted it into a new email - technically this is a violation of copyright with admission :-). Although it would have got her back up and I'm sure he was just having his fun.

Still laughing :-)

This is great.
Thanks for the uplift.

It reminded me of this story -

I personally went in to pay a gas bill last month - and the clerk taking my payment started a conversation about times being tough - he went on to tell me about a woman who had come in a few days prior that had the amount of what she owed them written on a 5 by 7 piece of paper in black ink.
She handed the clerk the paper and said -
"here is my payment. I should be caught up now."