A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.

Monday, April 06, 2009

Internet joke: Fw: Banking

From my cousin on Long Island, in its entirety (scroll down):

> Subject: Fw: Banking
>
>> The old Native American wanted a loan for $500.00
> The banker pulled out? the loan application, "What are
> you going to do
> with
> the money?"
>
> "Make jewelery and sell it," was the response.
>
> "What have you got for collateral?
> "Don't know collateral."
>
> "Well that's something of value that would cover
> the cost of the loan.
>
> "Have you got any vehicles?"
>
> "Yes, 1949 Chevy pickup."
>
> The banker shook his head, "How about livestock?"
>
> "Yes, I have a horse."
>
> "How old is it?"
>
> "Don't know, has no teeth."
>
> Finally the banker decided to make the $500 loan.
>
> Several weeks later the old man was back in the bank. He
> pulled out a
> roll of bills, "Here to pay." he said. He then
> handed the banker the money to
> pay his loan off.
>
> "What are you going to do with the rest of that
> money?"
>
> "Put in tepee."
>
> "Why don't you deposit it in my bank," he
> asked.
>
> "Don't know deposit."
>
> "You put the money in our bank and we take care of it
> for you. When you want to use it you can withdraw
> it."
>
> The old Indian leaned across the desk, "What you got
> for collateral?"
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Springfield (Ill.), United States
I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.