24 Mar 2003 | Darrel said...

You still use cash?

24 Mar 2003 | Toby said...

Mix it up? Too many words. It should be a single verb (either new or reused), like blend, twizzle, splitz, or frappe.

24 Mar 2003 | Benjy said...

I wish there were ATMs that would "mix it up." I hate it when trying to settle up a tab at a bar or restaurant and everybody in the group whips out $20 bills.

24 Mar 2003 | Scorched said...

I'm not sure where I heard it first, but I've called twenties "Yuppie Food Stamps" for a long time now. For pricely the reason that it's all my friends and I have when it's time to pay for food. Also in occasional use, calling a twenty an "ATM". "They had a hard time splitting up the bill, as each person only had ATM's".

24 Mar 2003 | David Wertheimer said...

Are you at a casino or something?

24 Mar 2003 | matt said...

Isn't that the same as "Can I get change for --"? Why reinvent the wheel?

24 Mar 2003 | Michael Armstrong said...

I'll echo matt's statement and add that if you ask for change "down to the one" or "down to the five" you'll get (for a $20 bill) 1x$10, 1x$5 and 5x$1 or 1x$10 and 2x$5 respectively.

24 Mar 2003 | JF said...

If you ask "Can I get change for..." you usually get "how do you want it" back. The "mix it up" concept tells them how. I've never heard "down to the one" or "down to the five" but I like it just as well.

24 Mar 2003 | noel said...

I'm in!

24 Mar 2003 | fajalar said...

Yeah, I vote for just getting rid of cash. Dirty stuff.

How about "Shuffle it." It is a synonym for "change" and still retains an aloof description that so many hip new phrases seem to have. It's also shorter.

24 Mar 2003 | Don Schenck said...

This meme's going nowhere. Sorry.

24 Mar 2003 | bob said...

i'll give it a try this week--i'm waiting tables right now so i have the pleasure of doing this often (and in silicon valley no less . . . it's sure to catch on, right?).

24 Mar 2003 | nathan said...

similar to "Yuppie Food Stamps" and easier: "Yuppie Tokens"

24 Mar 2003 | Steve said...

I wish there were ATMs that would "mix it up." I hate it when trying to settle up a tab at a bar or restaurant and everybody in the group whips out $20 bills.

I hate that too. I don't know why American ATMs aren't programmed to hand out a mix of notes. When I lived in Germany, if I withdrew 200 marks, I'd usually get something like 1 100 mark note, 1 50 mark note, a couple 20 mark notes and a 10 mark note. Much nicer.

24 Mar 2003 | nathan said...

I've been to some ATMs in the US that dispense different denominations, it varies bank to bank.

What REALLY BUGS is this: Having to select my language EVERY TIME. Why can't my preferred language be encoded on the card's magnetic strip? This is a fine example of a small design oversight resulting in trillions of extra keystrokes.

24 Mar 2003 | pb said...

Why doesn't it just start in English (or whatever is most prominent language in area) and let you switch if necessary.

24 Mar 2003 | Benjy said...

Why don't any ATMs, say one at each bank branch, have a CoinStar-type attachment for depositing those jars of coins into our bank accounts? I'm not going to give CoinStar a 15% cut or whatever they skim off the top, but I hate having to remember to go in during banking hours to cash in my change. And envelopes full of pennies tend to jam up the deposit slots.

24 Mar 2003 | JF said...

Are you at a casino or something?

Don't I wish!

24 Mar 2003 | skink said...

You should have gotten a ticket for trying to pick up a hooker and then speeding off.

24 Mar 2003 | fasdfasdasdf said...

A new word for making change would be deck. Or would it be hella cool?

24 Mar 2003 | skink4real said...

mix it up the hard way.

lonely but right.

24 Mar 2003 | skink4real said...

non-condesendingly

spell-check should be an option for the comments box.

24 Mar 2003 | skink3real said...

right. wrong. hypocritical. it's all a matter of perspective (and good people often disagree). but one thing is for sure: you can't try to make a point by blaming someone for something that you're doing yourself. respect. safe. big fork. chin up. out.

26 Mar 2003 | jimbo said...

that phrase is already in use for something else moron.

26 Mar 2003 | David Wertheimer said...

I don't know why American ATMs aren't programmed to hand out a mix of notes.

Some are. Citibank ATMs here in Manhattan automatically dispense two $10s with a stack of $20s as long as there are $10 bills in the machine. Select Citibank machines also have $50s, although I don't know how specifically to find them (and $50s are a pain, if a novelty).

26 Mar 2003 | Don Schenck said...

50-dollar bill?

David, you obviously are not married.

With children.

About to watch your daughter get married this summer.

:)

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