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Doddsino
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So technically, he COULD tell a lie...
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UsaSatsui
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You know, every library I've been to has never let the fines go above a certain limit (10 bucks or so), and the one time I lost a book, they waived the fine and made me pay the replacement cost.
So these "Huge multi-year fine for a book" stories always stuck me as a bit off.
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| UsaSatsui wrote: |
You know, every library I've been to has never let the fines go above a certain limit (10 bucks or so), and the one time I lost a book, they waived the fine and made me pay the replacement cost.
So these "Huge multi-year fine for a book" stories always stuck me as a bit off. |
Well, they didn't have computers back then so it was all paper documents.
Those are a bit harder to keep track of
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Klimbatize
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No, the point is there is a max late fee, usually the cost of the book. So it's dumb to say he owes $300K. All they did was take the cost of late fees and calculated them to like 210 years. In reality he'd probably only have to pay a small fee. Keeping track of checked out books using paper or a computer has nothing to do with it. It's just to make a lame story.
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The Opponent
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They just did it for a cheap laugh. Can you blame them, though? I would imagine that their job is not very exciting.
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slow news day is my guess
and when i owed fines at the library, i would just donate old books i didnt read anymore and they would waive them for me
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FNJ
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and this is the man that we chose to lead our country?
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The Opponent
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How dare us elect a man who is so brashly disrespectful to our literary heritage?
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UsaSatsui
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| How dare us elect a man who is so brashly disrespectful to our literary heritage? |
We didn't.
Fun fact: The electoral college was set up because it was the answer to the question, "How can we completely guaran-fucking-tee that George Washington wins?"
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Blackout
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Who the fuck is Georgre Washington? 
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Captain_Pollution
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I didn't even notice that! :O
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