Tyme/time machine

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Jan 12 03:30:11 UTC 2007


At 1:11 PM -0600 1/11/07, Scot LaFaive wrote:
>Does anyone know of any articles that discuss the use of "tyme/time machine"
>for ATM in Wisconsion and other areas and hopefully illustrate other
>regional names for ATMs from around the country?
>
>Scot
>
In case it's not totally transparent, TYME stood (stands?) for "Take
Your Money Everywhere", and at least in the late 1970s in Southern
Wisconsin its mascot was young Annie Tyme.  Cute, hunh?

LH

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