I bought a handheld black light at the petstore today. They advertise it as a tool you can use to find where in a room your pet might have had an "accident". In fact, it really does work great for that purpose. I was walking around my computer room with the black light (otherwise the room was dark) looking for my cat's "accident" and one of my Mastercards was laying on the desk. As I walked by the desk, the letters MC were glowing on the front of my card. I got out my other Mastercards, and sure enough when exposed to black light the letters MC are visible on the face of the card. I started pulling other cards out of my wallet. My Visa cards all have the image of the bird that's in the hologram on the bottom right embossed on the front of the card, only visible to black light. My Cobalt card says AMEX across the top when put under the light.
Gosh, Dave, You must really have too much time on your hands! Now if only you could hold that black light in front of your credit reports and make the bad stuff fade away. If you should be able to do that please let us all know so we can all run out a purchase one of those black lights
Hehehe... Later on I also found out that the security stripe in a $20 bill glows under black light. Also, a Disney dollar has lots of florescent dots (that look kind of like stars) that show up.
Dave, Now checking for counterfeits? You are just too much. Soon you'll revert back to the early 70's when those black light posters were out. You'll be sitting in your computer room with these posters stuck all over the walls, the lights out and several black lights causing the vivid flourescent effect on the posters. You'll be sitting on the floor in the middle of the room smoking that funny stuff and be totally zoned out on the effect of the black light! Oh no...we may have to save you! Sounds like this could be the start of an addiction! ROFL
That's what I was thinking... Pretty soon he'll be found (with a month-old beard & in his jammies) using his black light to poke through the neighbor's trash in the middle of the night. Hey Dave! Didn't I read somewhere that excessive black light exposure causes sterility?
GREAT DAVE! Hi Dave - after a rough, tiring Monday at the office - I enjoyed reading a useless fact of the day. My boss tells me useless facts all day too ...LOL! c ya dogman
Re: GREAT DAVE! Cool! I have a black light in my computer case (with a window). I should check out my credit cards. I doubt the First Premier (my wife got it... ) would have it.
