Top Items About Payment
Type | Title | Teaser | Author | Views | Rating |
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| Anecdotes | Massage Parlor? | "In December 1973, and again in January 1974, when he was a [Cincinnati] councilman and newly wed to Micki Velten, a Procter... | Anonymous | 96 | |
| Anecdotes | Edmund Spenser & the Queen | Queen Elizabeth, having been presented by Edmund Spenser with some of his verses, instructed the lord treasurer,... | Anonymous | 51 | |
| Jokes | Joke about Nudity, Size and Promiscuity | One rainy night in London, a taxi driver spotted an arm waving from the shadows of an alley halfway down the block. As... | Anonymous | 51 | |
| Anecdotes | Chess Writer | "Most commentaries in chess magazines and books are superficial and sometimes just awful," the famous chess writer... | Anonymous | 39 | |
| Anecdotes | Cash Cow | In Britain, banks are required to accept any legible check, irrespective of the document`s material... | Anonymous | 34 | |
| Anecdotes | John Szarkowski on paying writers | Shortly after he joined MoMA 1962, photographer and curator John Szarkowski attended a legendary meeting at which... | root | 26 | |
| Anecdotes | Lister | One day Joseph Lister was summoned to assist a wealthy lord with a fishbone which had lodged at the back of his throat.... | Anonymous | 23 | |
| Anecdotes | Drink Fund | The famously overbearing New York Times reporter Johnny Apple was greatly resented by his colleagues in... | Anonymous | 17 | |
| Anecdotes | Walking Toll | William Bowles` daily ride took him along a road which passed through a turnpike gate at which he was required to pay... | Anonymous | 17 | |
| Anecdotes | That`s In(cr)edible! | In Britain, banks are required to accept any legible check, irrespective of the document`s material content. A. P.... | Anonymous | 16 |
