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Eric Zorn: Ending credit card signatures is a whale of a good idea

So long, Shamu.

For more than a decade I've been signing the name of the world's most famous killer whale on credit card receipts and signature pads. When I'm not in a hurry, I add a crude drawing with jagged teeth and a spray of water coming out of Shamu's blowhole.

And not once, not in literally thousands of transactions, has a store employee or server compared that scrawl to the signature on the back of

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