Eat at Joe’s (part two)

Filed under Quickies (a two-minute read)

At first, people thought that paper money had no real value; not only did it have no bulk or substance, but it was also awkward and nearly silent to exchange. Bill developed the Billfold in which to store and carry paper money. This created methods and protocols, classic styles in which to handle and present paper money. Billfolds became a form of design status, and as such, were very popular among all classes of people.

In short order, competitors discovered ways of patenting their own paper money storage devices. Thomas Edison came up with a nearly identical concept he called the Wallet, thinking it was a clever name because valuables were often stored in a wall safe. His rather lame marketing slogan was “Now you can keep your folding money safe- wall it in your personal Edison Wallet.”

Woman had their own, double-secure way to transport and store valuables. Beginning during the Suffrage Movement of the early Twentieth Century, Chanel and Louis Vuitton Companies competed to develop first Handbags, then Purses, and then even smaller modular accessories, such as the Clutch and the Pocketbook. There has been no end to new, better, more stylish designs for these sorts of “Women’s Accessories as designers realized women (especially mothers) could never carry enough stuff around in various and different ways.

But Bill is still most famously renowned as the root of certain expressions and idioms, the objective subject in certain phrases. For instance, to express the object of the act of paying for something, as in to “pay the bill,” or “bill me later,” and the infamous “just put it on my bill, as well as many, many other common expressions.

It turned out that Bill’s unique namesake, The Billbird, those mysterious birds dwelling in bushes, were never properly identified by any authority. They defied every description, only  to errantly evolve into creatures that were singularly twice as useful in a person’s hand. The poor avians did their best  considering their awkward fledgling abilities and their slight capacity for learning.

Life is full of hopeful and obedient creatures. Consider the Dodo and the Passenger Pigeon, and how their fates as decided by man. Shall we permit Billbirds to suffer the same fate, or allow them to out survive us?

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Please permit sudden delays concerning anything inevitable. Accept personal and permanent liability for perpetual living.  Why not?  – gladguru

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