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Man tries to pay bill with spider sketch

A surreal email exchange of an Australian’s bid to pay an overdue bill with his drawing of a spider has become an internet hit.

David Thorne’s alleged conversation with an account clerk in which she refused to accept the childish painting as payment but agreed to email it back to him has been forwarded around the world.

His first response to a request for payment read: “I do not have any money so am sending you this drawing I did of a spider instead. I value the drawing at $233.95 so trust that this settles the matter.”

The employee, named as Jane Gilles, rejected the drawing but agreed to return it in an email attachment, reports News.com.au

But Mr Thorne was not satisfied: “Are you sure this drawing of a spider is the one I sent you? This spider only has seven legs and I do not feel I would have made such an elementary mistake when I drew it.”

After conceding he may have sent a seven-legged spider, he added an extra leg to the picture and again offered it as payment. “I trust this will bring the matter to a conclusion.”

Mr Thorne posted the conversation on his website 27bslash6.com and it has since spread around the internet.

The spider, a crude black and white graphic with a smiley face, has become so popular that it has been auctioned on eBay.

The Adelaide design director insists that all the exchanges on his site actually took place.

“The dialogue in the email transcripts are verbatim. Again, they would not be amusing to me otherwise,” he said. “I did amend a spelling mistake after posting the spider page but that has been the only change.”

Here’s the picture of the spider in the original email at the top of the original news story http://www.news.com.au/story/0,,24674...

I don’t know if this was posted as it was reported on 23rd Nov, but I thought it was hilarious and wanted to share it with you all!

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CosmicDebris offline Verified User (1 year) Long Term User Shouts: 12 #
An Unknown Location | 12 months ago (3 minutes after post)

That’s hilarious. I hadn’t heard that one.

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An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (3 minutes after post)

Don’t click the link, my antivirus just popped up saying it had a virus.

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CosmicDebris offline Verified User (1 year) Long Term User Shouts: 12 #
An Unknown Location | 12 months ago (4 minutes after post)

Laina1312 wrote:
Don’t click the link, my antivirus just popped up saying it had a virus.

I just did. Thanks

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An Unknown Location | 12 months ago (4 minutes after post)

It doesnt have a virus it’s a picture!

If it helps I’ll get another link for it instead!

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An Unknown Location | 12 months ago (5 minutes after post)

disgruntled wrote:
It doesnt have a virus it’s a picture!If it helps I’ll get another link for it instead!

Did you pimp me and give me a virus.

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An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (6 minutes after post)

disgruntled wrote:
It doesnt have a virus it’s a picture!

If it helps I’ll get another link for it instead!

My anti-virus disagrees…

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An Unknown Location | 12 months ago (6 minutes after post)

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,,24674…

this is the original news story, the picture is at the top of that.

I didn’t give you a virus though! I just uploaded a picture to tinypic!

Your antivirus may be wrong, especially if it’s Norton.

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Man tries to pay bill with spider sketch

A surreal email exchange of an Australian’s bid to pay an overdue bill with his drawing of a spider has become an internet hit.

David Thorne’s alleged conversation with an account clerk in which she refused to accept the childish painting as payment but agreed to email it back to him has been forwarded around the world.

His first response to a request for payment read: “I do not have any money so am sending you this drawing I did of a spider instead. I value the drawing at $233.95 so trust that this settles the matter.”

The employee, named as Jane Gilles, rejected the drawing but agreed to return it in an email attachment, reports News.com.au

But Mr Thorne was not satisfied: “Are you sure this drawing of a spider is the one I sent you? This spider only has seven legs and I do not feel I would have made such an elementary mistake when I drew it.”

After conceding he may have sent a seven-legged spider, he added an extra leg to the picture and again offered it as payment. “I trust this will bring the matter to a conclusion.”

Mr Thorne posted the conversation on his website 27bslash6.com and it has since spread around the internet.

The spider, a crude black and white graphic with a smiley face, has become so popular that it has been auctioned on eBay.

The Adelaide design director insists that all the exchanges on his site actually took place.

“The dialogue in the email transcripts are verbatim. Again, they would not be amusing to me otherwise,” he said. “I did amend a spelling mistake after posting the spider page but that has been the only change.”

Here’s the picture of the spider in the original email http://i33.tinypic.com/k9flvt.jpg

I don’t know if this was posted as it was reported on 23rd Nov, but I thought it was hilarious and wanted to share it with you all!

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An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (7 minutes after post)

It’s not, it’s Comodo. And AVG.

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An Unknown Location | 12 months ago (8 minutes after post)

Sorry if it did try to give you a virus, it wasn’t my intention, I just wanted to share something funny with you. I’ve updated the post and removed the link

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An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (9 minutes after post)

Thank you.

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An Unknown Location | 12 months ago (9 minutes after post)

disgruntled wrote:
Sorry if it did try to give you a virus, it wasn’t my intention, I just wanted to share something funny with you. I’ve updated the post and removed the link

I CLICKED the F’N thing!!!

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An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (10 minutes after post)

CosmicDebris wrote:

disgruntled wrote:
Sorry if it did try to give you a virus, it wasn’t my intention, I just wanted to share something funny with you. I’ve updated the post and removed the link
I CLICKED the F’N thing!!!

Run a virus scan.

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An Unknown Location | 12 months ago (12 minutes after post)

CosmicDebris wrote:

disgruntled wrote:
Sorry if it did try to give you a virus, it wasn’t my intention, I just wanted to share something funny with you. I’ve updated the post and removed the link

I CLICKED the F’N thing!!!

Laina is right, run an anti viru scan. I clicked the link too, but my computer is clean. I’m sorry if it’s caused mayhem… go re-read the story to bring back a smile back on your face! :)

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An Unknown Location | 12 months ago (13 minutes after post)

disgruntled wrote:

CosmicDebris wrote:
disgruntled wrote:
Sorry if it did try to give you a virus, it wasn’t my intention, I just wanted to share something funny with you. I’ve updated the post and removed the link

I CLICKED the F’N thing!!!

Laina is right, run an anti viru scan. I clicked the link too, but my computer is clean. I’m sorry if it’s caused mayhem… go re-read the story to bring back a smile back on your face! :)

It’s cool. honest mistake. I’m running Anti right now

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An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (15 minutes after post)

CosmicDebris wrote:
It’s cool. honest mistake. I’m running Anti right now

What do you use?

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An Unknown Location | 12 months ago (49 minutes after post)

lol, this was on Have i got news for you the other day, it had me in stiches, especially when the guy said that the picture they sent back wasnt his!

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An Unknown Location | 12 months ago (1 hour, 1 minute after post)

Laina1312 wrote:

CosmicDebris wrote:
It’s cool. honest mistake. I’m running Anti right now

What do you use?

F-Secure

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