Thread: I am a Nielson Family!

A few weeks back I got a package in the mail from the Nielson rating folks. Somehow they had chosen me to keep a diary for one week of all my radio listening. In the package was a booklet explaining what they wanted of me. A very well designed "diary" with the times and days all marked out so I could simply draw lines and x's all over it to indicate when I was listening to the radio and where I was at the time. There were a bunch of very nifty self adhesive dots each printed with the call letters and frequency of a radio station in my listening area. There was a questionaire they wanted me to fill out unless I had a child in the house over 13 and younger than 18 in which case they wanted that kid to fill it out. But best of all, in the package was a brand new five dollar bill! The booklet promised me another five dollar bill if I played along and sent them back the diary properly completed and an additional two dollars for the completed questionaire. So I did their bidding. I feel cheap and used but I did all the sordid things they asked of me. Yes, I admit it. I did it for the money!

Yesterday it came. I got my thank you note and a brand new five dollar bill and two brand new one dollar bills. Right away I noticed something odd about the singles. Here take a look:

How can it be? What are the odds? In case you don't pick up on it, the two bills are not consecutive serial numbers (which would not have been at all remarkable). They are one thousand bills apart! What the?

We are immensely happy for you. Like the folks used to say: don't spend it all in one place.

Weirdness. I can't help but see moloch the owl peeping out from his perch on the $1 bill there. What am I talking about?

Look at the numeral 1 in the upper right of the bill. Use the second picture for this since it shows more of that area of the bill. I'm talking about the large numeral 1 with a "crest" type border around it.

Look at the top of the crest for a reference point. The top of the crest, the line running horizontally has the upwards point in the center of it. Now....look to the left edge of the top crest outline and peer very closely in the curved area just down from the left edge of the top line of that crest. There's moloch or who some believe to be an image of moloch lookin atcha.

Just a bit of trivia.

Chris L

You better tape one of those up on the wall of your tv room,,,,,,, you, know, the first dollar you made wathing tv

Originally Posted by ChrisL

Look at the numeral 1 in the upper right of the bill. Use the second picture for this since it shows more of that area of the bill. I'm talking about the large numeral 1 with a "crest" type border around it.

Look at the top of the crest for a reference point. The top of the crest, the line running horizontally has the upwards point in the center of it. Now....look to the left edge of the top crest outline and peer very closely in the curved area just down from the left edge of the top line of that crest. There's moloch or who some believe to be an image of moloch lookin atcha.

Just a bit of trivia.

Chris L

I learned as a kid that that little thing sitting on the crest was the Spider that did all the webbing around the bill and decided to stop there and rest.

Quite the coincidence Brad, go out and buy yourself something nice!

As long as there's at least one digit that's different I wouldn't be too concerned. And if they were exactly the same, I'd have seriously thought about using them for blackmail!



BTW, what are you doing with the unopened pack of NPR stickers

Originally Posted by gugi

BTW, what are you doing with the unopened pack of NPR stickers

Ha! That's funny! In fact, they were missing the sticker for WNYC, the NPR station I listen to in the afternoons. Apparently the Neilson folks don't consider New York City in my listening area, even though it is only like 40 miles away.