Starching dollar bills

The foreboding message on the answering machine was, “I’m with the Secret Service. Please call me at….” Since I created the problem, not my lovely wife, I agreed to call them back. They told me the bill was good, but they wanted to know where she got it. I fessed up and told her she got it from me, and that the reason it showed up as bad was because I had starched it. She asked me why I did that. I told her it was all wrinkly and I wanted it to be nice and crisp.

(Note added 14 June 2004: *sigh*  It’s not me, folks, that’s why it’s in a blockquote and why there’s a link to someone else’s site.  Note the hyperlink on the text “wanted it to be nice and crisp” — that will take you to the full story.)

On another topic, thanks for the people who have let me know that the menu of links is not working. For some reason SSI are not working on the new system; I haven’t figured it out yet. Any experts among my readers want to review my Apache 2.0 httpd.conf?

(Fixed.  Gee, it helps if I’m editing the right httpd.conf, doesn’t it?)

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