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Post by HollywoodVampirella on Mar 15, 2009 20:56:33 GMT -5
BERLIN (Reuters) – A German mathematician who died 450 years ago has been sent a letter demanding that he pay long-overdue television license fees, residents at his former address said on Wednesday. Germany's GEZ broadcast fee collection office sent the bill to the last home address of Adam Ries, an algebra expert who bought the house in 1525. A club in his honor was set up at the property four centuries later. "We received a letter saying 'To Mr Adam Ries' on it, with the request to pay his television and radio fees," said Annegret Muench, who now heads the club. Muench returned the letter to the GEZ with a note explaining the request had come too late because Ries had died in 1559, centuries before the invention of television and radio. She nonetheless received a reminder a few weeks later. This was not the first time the GEZ had sent a bill to those in the afterlife. Last year, a school named after poet Friedrich Schiller received a reminder asking him to declare all radios and televisions in his home and pay the corresponding fees. (Reporting by Franziska Scheven; Editing by Katie Nguyen) news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090312/od_nm/us_germany_bill_odd;_ylt=ArSMSaJ7TVhQZ0y_i5yuyzJeW7oF
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Post by fallenangel on Mar 17, 2009 23:16:08 GMT -5
First of all OMG how stupid of those people. I mean come on they are dead duh. But,you know this sounds awfully fimiliar except it wasn't a bill. It was more like my dead brother and his former wife had some land. About a few years ago in the paper land owners were going to get some money back and my brother had been one listed. I was kinda like huh he is dead.
I highly doubt someone from the 1500s could pay radio and television fees. Anyways this story sounds like someone was money hungry.
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Post by Monkey on Apr 10, 2009 0:47:24 GMT -5
The zombie apocalypse is alot more.....boring then I had thought it would be...
What happened, no HBO in hell?
Well, actually, you would figure hell would only have the basic package... it IS hell after all... no playboy channel for you bucko, you didn't follow Jesus! Guess this does kinda make sence... if this guy can figure out algebra, rising from the dead to hog the tube shouldn't be that difficult...
Someone has to say this, and bless anyone who gets the joke: "They're heeeeeerrrrreeeeeee."
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Post by sykochyk on Apr 23, 2009 19:56:43 GMT -5
gaaa no wonder their a 3rd world country there so stupid there i mean there women dont even shave UGGGGGG LOL
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