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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:31:31 -0500 (EST)
From: "Jon C. Slenk" 
To: +dist+/afs/andrew/usr/js9b/Public/camc.dl@andrew.cmu.edu
Subject: yeah 
Fred: Is

Here's some stuff about Boggs. This is all taken from the Vol 9 No 15 th
issue of In Pittsburgh. I guess its all copyright etc. them. :}

Sorry for typos - this is being typed in really fast and I don't wanna
bother to go back and correct lots of stuff :)

So one day in 1984 Boggs was in Chicago, sitting in a diner having a
doughnut and coffee, and doodling on a napkin. He drew a numeral "1",
[sic] then expanded it inot a sketch of a one-dollar bill. Boggs in an
excellent draftsman, and the waitress who'd been refilling his coffee
admired the drawing. She wanted to buy it. She offered him 20 bucks.
Fifty.

Boggs was embarrassed to sell someone a doodle on a greasy napkin, so he
said, "Tell you what. I'll pay for my doughnut and coffee with this
drawing." The waitress took the drawing, put a real dollar bill of her own
into the cash register - and gave Boggs the change.

[the he was going to try and buy some stuff at an art store with one of
his bills...]

"Well," she laughs nervously, "You know what they say. It's all in the eye
of the beholder."

Boggs replies, "And you are the beholder. So you are the one who must
decide."

For a moment, an amazing transofrmatino comes over the woman. She draws
herself up and announces bravely: "That's right!" Then her face falls, and
the look of confusion comes back. Finally, she says no. As boggs is
gatherin up his things, she apologizes. Boggs reassures her, "There is no
wrong decision that you can make. I'm more concerned that you actually
made a decision."

[...]

Then tehre was the collector who called Boggs to tell him she'd just
bought one of his bills for $2,000. When she described the transaction it
allegedly came from, Boggs said he didn't remember it. Later he got a look
at the bill, and sure enough, it was counterfeit. That's right: *There are
people out there counterfeiting Boggs bills.* "I told the collector she
shouldn't worry about it too much," Boggs says. The fake Boggs bill
"really was a nice piece of work, and I told her she should derive much
pleasure from it."

[end]

Yeah. All the time he has been doing this, the government has been trying
to hork him because he is breaking the law. The law regarding reproducing
money is pretty dumb and very very restrictive. He is pretty much pusing
things a lot and forcing folks to reconsider the law and their beliefs /
values. It's kul.

-Jon.

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Jon Slenk           angst+@cmu.edu     EVERYTHING is
Carnegie Mellon     Pittsburgh PA      Disclaimed

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