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From 5/1/2007 (this is the full text, despite the ellipses at the end):
TheNewWorldMan wrote:
Remember that credit bureaus use different methods to receive and process good versus bad credit information.
Information that would negatively affect your credit rating--like a late pay or charge-off--is instantly beamed from the creditor to the agency via Department of Defense 256-megabit fiber optic lines and written to their servers in 8.6 milliseconds.
Information that would positively affect your credit rating is scribed onto scrolls in special ink by Gregorian monks, which are then painstakingly illuminated. The Credit Scrolls are then placed onto camel caravans which wind their way to the credit bureau headquarters by way of Marrakesh, Dubai, and Tripoli. Once the caravan reaches Equifax, Experian or TransUnion, the scrolls are then laid out in the sun for a week so that the special ink can be read. (Note that the weather around the credit bureau headquarters is notoriously gloomy, like FICO itself, so finding seven consecutive days of sunshine can be quite an ordeal in and of itself.) Only then can the information finally be encoded into your credit files...
LOL! It sure does seem to take forever to see that payment applied. I am waiting now for 2 weeks for EX to remove me as an AU from 2 of DH's cards. TU and EQ were able to do it within a few days. Here I await EX...and wait... and wait.... The ink must not be dry, or maybe there was a camel traffic jam around Dubai....
haulingthescoreup - love it! Thanks for the chuckle.
Hahahaha, that just made my day,Thanks!
Now that I think about it, I'm going to move this over to Credit Cards. Too many serious folks on Understanding, and it's CC where all the stressin' foks are.
You know you're a nerd when you read that and think "The DoD definitely has 10Gig-E fiber..."
@Anonymous wrote:You know you're a nerd when you read that and think "The DoD definitely has 10Gig-E fiber..."
Well, it was from 2007...
HAHA! Love it!
@haulingthescoreup wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:You know you're a nerd when you read that and think "The DoD definitely has 10Gig-E fiber..."
Well, it was from 2007...
Yeah I was thinking in 2007 terms. Now they are probably using 40Gig-E for their primary backbones.
Great laugh.