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Re: Dear Linkedin,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lyle Giese)
Sat Jun 9 16:49:18 2012
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 15:48:16 -0500
From: Lyle Giese <lyle@lcrcomputer.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <17987295.8604.1339274600271.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 06/09/12 15:43, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Barry Shein"<bzs@world.std.com>
>> A friend would print in block letters in the sig area of his credit
>> cards "ASK FOR PHOTO ID". He said that almost always cashiers et al
>> would give a cursory glance like they were checking his signature and
>> say thank you and hand him back his card.
> This seems like an altogether excellent time to haul out *this* old
> chestnut:
>
> http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit/
>
> FWIW, My cards have always said SEE ID, and I get about a 40% or so hit
> rate on that. It's been odd recently, cause I sometimes forget, and the
> privacy reflex kicks in and makes me want to say "Why??" :-)
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
My personal favorite is to ask if I spelled my name correctly?
Lyle Giese
LCR Computer Services, Inc.
