The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 39, September 28, 2003, Article 22

NEW TWIST ON SHOVING QUEER

   A September 16 article in The China Post describes a new
   twist on pawning off counterfeit money.

   "A man was caught red-handed trying to launder counterfeit
   money at a wedding banquet at a Taipei hotel, police said
   yesterday.

   "According to police, the suspect, Lee Chih-ming, would
   show up at banquets, claiming he was delivering cash gifts on
   behalf of friends to the marrying couples.

   He would give the fake money wrapped in red envelopes to
   the receptionists, ask for receipts and leave.

   He would then return a few minutes later, claim he had wrongly
   delivered the gifts, and ask to have the money back.

   Following a customary practice, the receptionists would have
   already unwrapped the gifts, and recorded the amounts, and
   mixed the fake banknotes with the real ones. The money they
   returned to the suspect was real money."

   To read the full story, see:
   http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/detail.asp?ID=41331&GRP=B

   [In the 19th century, counterfeit money was sometimes
   referred to as "queer money" or simply, "queer".  The act of
   spending or otherwise passing the fake money (or shoving it
   on unknowing third parties) was called "shoving".  Thus
   "shoving the queer" means passing counterfeit money.  -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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