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A man in Australia just returned a book to a school library that his grandfather checked out 120 years ago
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| 12/10/2022
| Harriet Rigby
Posted on 12/10/2022 12:56:52 PM PST by DFG
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What the Dickens?
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posted on
12/10/2022 12:56:52 PM PST
by
DFG
To: DFG
This is why I refuse to return my junior high library books. I don’t want to end up on the news
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posted on
12/10/2022 1:00:57 PM PST
by
NWFree
(Somebody has to say it 🤪)
To: DFG
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posted on
12/10/2022 1:01:55 PM PST
by
glennaro
(Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
To: NWFree
I figure everyone should have their own copy of The Burma Road
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posted on
12/10/2022 1:03:15 PM PST
by
NWFree
(Somebody has to say it 🤪)
To: DFG
In December 2022, his grandson, John Lamb, returned the book to the library. Only 119 years after it was first checked out!
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The library can finally call the next person on the waitlist for the book.
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posted on
12/10/2022 1:03:18 PM PST
by
Flick Lives
(Cui bono)
To: DFG
The late fees are probably over a million dollars.
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posted on
12/10/2022 1:05:09 PM PST
by
READINABLUESTATE
(It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.)
To: glennaro; Larry Lucido; SaveFerris; Rebelbase; Gamecock
Paging Mr. Bookman ...
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posted on
12/10/2022 1:08:31 PM PST
by
PROCON
(Sic Semper Tyrannis)
To: DFG
I’m only about 45 years overdue
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posted on
12/10/2022 1:10:40 PM PST
by
NWFree
(Somebody has to say it 🤪)
To: DFG
I have a book about the Korean war too where they write about all the human waves from hundreds of thousands of Chinese commies
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posted on
12/10/2022 1:12:38 PM PST
by
NWFree
(Somebody has to say it 🤪)
To: NWFree
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posted on
12/10/2022 1:14:00 PM PST
by
NWFree
(Somebody has to say it 🤪)
To: PROCON
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posted on
12/10/2022 1:25:31 PM PST
by
Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
To: DFG
Our guys had to just keep mowing those little suckers down till their gun barrels were red hot
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posted on
12/10/2022 1:25:55 PM PST
by
NWFree
(Somebody has to say it 🤪)
To: READINABLUESTATE
In the 1960s, when I first started having to deal with library overdue fines, I remember two cents a day as being a typical amount. If that had been the fine in 1903, the total would only be about $877 for 120 years. I never heard of a library charging compound interest on fines.
To: READINABLUESTATE
"The late fees are probably over a million dollars."It was 1903. They may not have charged late fees then. And if they did, one could argue that it's the 1903 rate at the time of checkout that should be used without subsequent increases. Especially if there was no notice of increase given to the borrower.
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posted on
12/10/2022 1:30:51 PM PST
by
DannyTN
To: DFG
No worries. They had great expectations it would be returned.
I know, groan.
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posted on
12/10/2022 1:33:25 PM PST
by
Fledermaus
(It's time to get rid of the Three McStooges; Mitch, Kevin and Ronna!)
To: DFG
There is an Australian connection to the novel--one of the main characters has made a lot of money in Australia and come back illegally to England.
Whether a convict who returned to England after serving his time would face the death penalty seems unlikely--maybe someone else will know. But Dickens made it part of the plot. What Alfred Hitchcock would call a McGuffin. (Or is it "Maguffin"?)
To: Fledermaus
Yeah, but they thought their chances were Bleak.
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posted on
12/10/2022 1:51:12 PM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker!)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
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posted on
12/10/2022 1:52:16 PM PST
by
Fledermaus
(It's time to get rid of the Three McStooges; Mitch, Kevin and Ronna!)
To: DannyTN; READINABLUESTATE
“It was 1903. They may not have charged late fees then.”
I think they hanged you, back then, for theft.
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posted on
12/10/2022 1:56:53 PM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: DannyTN
But... You have to pay it in gold/silver coin...
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posted on
12/10/2022 2:05:31 PM PST
by
Axenolith
(WWG1WGA!)
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