# What ther fuck do you mean I'm a terrorist, Dollar Bank?

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**Created:** [November 22, 2003, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ther-fuck-do-you-mean-im-a-terrorist-dollar-bank/214707 "2003-11-22T17:44:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ther-fuck-do-you-mean-im-a-terrorist-dollar-bank/214707/41 "2003-11-25T18:54:30Z")

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My favorite bank story: when I was in college, I opened an account at a new bank, where they required two forms of ID. I gave them my driver’s license and my college ID.

Now, my college ID, due to circumstances beyond my ken, included a photograph of me that looked like an artist’s pencil sketch of Charles Manson. I’m not sure why the picture came out that way, but it was utterly weird looking.

Anyway, the bank employee looked at my ID for the longest time, then handed it back to me looking bewildered and said, “That’s not a photograph, that’s a pencil drawing. I can’t accept that!”

Naturally I told her that, if I were trying to pass off a fake ID, I could do better than **using a pencil drawing of myself**. She agreed, but still refused to accept the college ID. Eventually she accepted my library card instead.

Can’t say I blame her.

Daniel

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**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ther-fuck-do-you-mean-im-a-terrorist-dollar-bank/214707/42 "2003-11-25T19:08:00Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by astro \*  
> \*\*Hmmm…
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> Elmwood is an “Urban Planner”
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> Terrorists are often affiliated with “Al Qaeda”
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> Descriptive phrases concerning affiliations containing _two words each_.
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> Coincidence? I think not! \*\*

A better link:

elmwood is an urban planner.

elmwood has an M.UP., with a thesis topic dealing with the evolution and decline of older post-WWII suburbs.

Mohammed Atta has an M.UP., with a thesis topic dealing with Islamic principles in urban planning.

Mohammed Atta could be an urban planner if he wanted to.  
Coincidence? LALALALALALALALALALALALALALA!

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