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Man tries to pay bill with spider drawing

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It's no more humiliating than many of the other things many others do for 'money.' That is a well which has no bottom in a society controlled by central banks. At at the rate things are going, Americans will be trading their first born for a cheeseburger within 20 years.
 
Now, that's funny!! Best laugh all week!

I remember seeing a show, I think on PBS, about an artist fella who was paying for stuff with hand drawn money. His work was very good, and the bills he drew looked almost real, though they were one sided so as to avoid the whole counterfeit bill thing.

I can't find a link to it, but I recall that he paid a pretty costly hotel bill with his art, which he deemed was valuable enough to cover said bill. The hotel manager accepted it as payment and had it framed and hung in the hotel, waiting against the day he could sell it for more then the bill was.
 
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Now, that's funny!! Best laugh all week!

I remember seeing a show, I think on PBS, about an artist fella who was paying for stuff with hand drawn money. His work was very good, and the bills he drew looked almost real, though they were one sided so as to avoid the whole counterfeit bill thing.

I can't find a link to it, but I recall that he paid a pretty costly hotel bill with his art, which he deemed was valuable enough to cover said bill. The hotel manager accepted it as payment and had it framed and hung in the hotel, waiting against the day he could sell it for more then the bill was.
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I remember seeing that and thinking it was really cool. I read a story about Picasso going to eat in a fine restaurant. The waiter, recognizing him, offered to serve his meal for free in trade for a piece of art. Pablo whipped out a drawing on a napkin and gave it to the waiter. "Aren't you going to sign it?" he asked. To which Picasso replied "I'm only paying for the meal, I don't want to buy the whole restaurant."
 
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