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...different situation, barter could make a comeback among the down-and-out. In communities that had no standard unit of exchange (e.g. prisoner-of-war camps in the World Wars), people commonly substituted consumer goods with universal value for cash. Under this system, we might have "Brother, can I bum a sandwich, cigarette...
...favor of passively causing their extinction. Other objections could come from merchants, who would prefer the simplicity of credit transactions to the tedium of processing coupons. Some merchants might protest against honoring the coupons at all; that fancy French restaurant probably doesn't want to serve the poor bum who saved up hundreds of food coupons for one glorious meal. In addition, the federal government would have to print up unforgeable coupons (though in much smaller numbers) just as it had previously printed bills...
Hummm...maybe you should forget about what I said about Harvard having no control over its ECAC destiny. The Crimson may have lost Friday's game on a couple of bum calls, but that SHOULD NOT happen against the league's worst team unless you put yourself in position to get jobbed...
...pictures of Richard Nixon in the peephole of his cell when they made their rounds. Later he staged comedy shows for the other inmates. Once, while riding a bus to another prison, he managed to slip out of his handcuffs. The only thing he could think to do was bum a cigarette off the old bank robber sitting in front of him. "I reached into his shirt pocket with the handcuff on one hand, and then tapped him on his other shoulder to get a match. He said, 'What's going on?' and I told him I got my handcuffs...
...familiar to relate once again: it has been available on television -- in a less overbearing version -- every Christmas season for almost a half-century. Given these circumstances, it betrays no secrets to say that aided by smart lawyering, shrewd media manipulation and a child's faith, he beats a bum...