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it's a clear-cut case of life imitating art, if you ask me...
in a Season 2 episode of The Andy Griffith Show entitled "Mayberry Goes Bankrupt", old Frank Myers is about to be evicted from his home, and when going through his things, he finds a bond that was issued to one of his relatives by the city of Mayberry, N.C. during the Civil War... when Frank tries to cash his bond, he finds that, with 100 years of compounded interest, it is now worth more than the city of Mayberry has in its treasury... unfortunately, it is later revealed that at the time the bond was issued, North Carolina was a part of the Confederacy, so it turns out that the bond is worthless, and the city is off the hook...
fast-forward nearly 50 years, and have a look at the article:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/localgovernment/article419897.ece
now look at the similarities here... an elderly person is trying to collect on an inherited note from the Civil War era, and if it's good, it really could just about "bankrupt" the city... now, the note was issued on June 21, 1861, BUT Florida seceded from the Union on January 10, 1861, SO my Andy Griffith Show logic tells me that the promisory note would have been for $299.58 in Confederate money, making it worthless today!
AM I RIGHT?!?!?!
in a Season 2 episode of The Andy Griffith Show entitled "Mayberry Goes Bankrupt", old Frank Myers is about to be evicted from his home, and when going through his things, he finds a bond that was issued to one of his relatives by the city of Mayberry, N.C. during the Civil War... when Frank tries to cash his bond, he finds that, with 100 years of compounded interest, it is now worth more than the city of Mayberry has in its treasury... unfortunately, it is later revealed that at the time the bond was issued, North Carolina was a part of the Confederacy, so it turns out that the bond is worthless, and the city is off the hook...
fast-forward nearly 50 years, and have a look at the article:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/localgovernment/article419897.ece
now look at the similarities here... an elderly person is trying to collect on an inherited note from the Civil War era, and if it's good, it really could just about "bankrupt" the city... now, the note was issued on June 21, 1861, BUT Florida seceded from the Union on January 10, 1861, SO my Andy Griffith Show logic tells me that the promisory note would have been for $299.58 in Confederate money, making it worthless today!
AM I RIGHT?!?!?!
