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I It was written by Benjamin Hawkins in the late 18th century. your PIN in reverse. He was a politician and Indian diplomat. While in the south, For example, if your pin number is 1234, then you would put in 4321. The ATM system recognizes that your PIN Hawkins was requested by the President of the U.S. to return number is backwards from the ATM card you placed in the to Washington. In his response, he was said to write, "God machine. The machine will still give you the money you willing and the Creek don't rise." Because he capitalized the requested, but unknown to the robber, the police will be word "Creek" it is deduced that he was referring to the Creek Indian tribe and not a body of water. immediately dispatched to the location. All ATM’s carry this emergency sequencer by law. arly politicians required feedback from the public to determine This information was recently broadcast on Crime Stoppers. E what the people considered important. Since there were no However, it is seldom used because people just don't know telephones, TV's or radios, the politicians sent their assistants about it. to local taverns, pubs, and bars. They were told to 'go sip some Ale and listen to people's conversations and political concerns. Wonder where that came from… Many assistants were dispatched at different times. 'You go Common entertainment included playing cards. However, sip here' and 'You go sip there.' The two words 'go sip' were there was a tax levied when purchasing playing cards but only eventually combined when referring to the local opinion and, applicable to the 'Ace of Spades.' To avoid paying the tax, people thus we have the term gossip. would purchase 51 cards instead. Yet, since most games require s incredible as it sounds, men and women took baths only 52 cards, these people were thought to be stupid or dumb because A twice a year (May and October). Women kept their hair they weren't 'playing with a full deck.' covered, while men shaved their heads (because of lice and bugs) A little slice of history… and wore wigs. Wealthy men could afford good wigs made from wool. They couldn't wash the wigs, so to clean them "[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the they would carve out a loaf of bread, put the wig in the shell, less they provided for themselves, and of course became and bake it for 30 minutes. The heat would make the wig big poorer, [taking] away from before their eyes the greatest of all and fluffy, hence the term 'big wig'. Today we often use the inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them term 'here comes the Big Wig' because someone appears to be a dependence of somewhat else than a careful accumulation or is powerful and wealthy.