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I yam what I yam

I got stuff done today. A quiz written and posted online, and I took this huge pile of my late mother’s savings bonds to the bank. Almost 200 slips of paper, and they’re being processed and interest calculated as a I type. Unfortunately, to get that done I had to personally sign each one there at the bank.

I can’t feel my right arm now. It’s simultaneously numb and sore. That represents one tedious chore done, though.

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  2. John Morales says

    Some of my duties during my years of employment involved signing/initialing/cosigning a lot of documents.

    So, I ended up developing three signatures: my initials only, a short form, and the regular long form.

  5. Jazzlet says

    In Wolverhampton, Bilston and round about there in the west midlands of England ‘yam’ is a dialect word meaning roughly ‘are you’, so a local might ask ‘yam going up [the] pub?’.

  6. Pierce R. Butler says

    A few years ago I read an account (can’t so far find anything about it online) about Salmon P. Chase, Lincoln’s Secretary of the Treasury through most of the US Civil War. The Union had a plan to sell a big wad of bonds to England, all of which required Chase’s signature and which had to go on a ship which had to sail in a short time.

    Reportedly, Chase stayed up all night signing those bonds, a thousand or more of them, but he got them all done and on the boat that next morning. That particular deal fell through in the end, but his dedication to the job may have helped persuade Lincoln to nominate him for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court when that seat opened up (the Senate approved him that same day). His lifetime appointment lasted nine years, and his right hand caused him pain throughout from that one frantic night.

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