And thus are novels born...

[unixronin]

With considerable snippage for relative brevity:

<strega42> wow... this credit card offer is Such A Deal! <chokes>
<strega42> annual fee $114, monthly service fee $11, and 23.9% interest
<strega42> a one time $4 internet access fee
<strega42> credit fee 50% the amount of the credit.
<strega42> of course i am waiving any right to a jury trial for arbitration
<strega42> i also waive any right to a class action suit
<strega42> oh, this thing is *shiny*
<strega42> First Premier Bank
<strega42> Hm.  South Dakota.  I should look up those state regulatory laws, and see if
           there's any fine print about SD residents :-p
<Alaric> according to Deke all the real credit pirates incorporate in SD, because SD
           banking laws practically allow them to seize your marriagable-age daughters as
           collateral
<strega42> Really?  They can have mine!
<paxed> Alaric: s/credit// and you have a lois mcmaster bujold novel in the making
           (probably of the miles-series...) ;)
<paxed> and the daughters would kick butt, of course ;)
<paxed> heck, i'd read that.

Comments

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

All the credit cards I've had were from SD. Always wondered what the laws were like there...

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Some years ago, a friend on the Bujold mailing list sent me a thread where people were coming up with different characters' reactions to someone killing Ivan Vorpatril. For example, one of them was something like, "Hello, I am Mark Vorkosigan. I've gotten out of the torture and assassination business, but for you, I'll make an exception." (This is paraphrased from years-old memory.)

My contribution was, "Hello, I'm Lois McMaster Bujold, and you have just pissed off all of my major characters. Now that they're all in one place, hold on for a second while I find a bucket of crap to dump on them!"

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

Hello, My name is Lois McMaster Bujold, and you killed all my characters. Prepare to die.

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[mrmeval.livejournal.com]

She didn't see the 'black card' ... gag.

http://tinyurl.com/cb24dw

It sounds so 2009.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

That link doesn't appear to work.

[mrmeval.livejournal.com]

Jackasses, that crap defines this card
http://www.blackcard.com/

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Aaaahhh... it's The New Conspicuous Consumption Card.


And I'll bet it doesn't even have razor edges.

[lizzibabe.livejournal.com]

I'd read that and pay hardcover price for it.