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14th Mar 2004

Million Dollar Baby

By now, I’m sure you’ve heard about the woman in Georgia who tried to buy $1,675 worth of crap at Wal-mart and pay for it with a $1 million bill, eager for her change. I wouldn’t have bothered mentioning it, but this afternoon I heard NPR’s news quiz show Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me reference this tidbit, followed by the brilliantly apt musical interlude of Fred Waring’s “I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cent Store)”: MP3 | Lyrics.

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