The short snorter substantiation in a bar is reminiscent of challenge coin checks; I wonder if they have a common ancestor?

I'm in trouble if anybody asks..

Sometimes I wonder whether these Atlas Obscura articles are entirely made up, some kind of funny-if-it-was-true fiction.

Wikipedia has a whole section on notable short snorters :)

It is a pretty incredible story though isn't it.

That is what they should have called key signing for PGP. Short snorter parties would sound a lot more fun than key signing parties.

After reading the article I'm still kind of unsure what the process is. You meet a fellow pilot / famous person / rando and ask them to sign a $1 bill which you then attach by tape to your "short snorter". Maybe they ask what's going on, and so you sign a $1 and tell them to hold onto it always, because if you ask for it and they don't have it, they owe you a drink / $1. Is that how it works?

These days, and probably for the last 50 or 60 years, anything involving a snorter and rolled up bill would be associated with something other than signatures.

I don't get it?

I still don't get it

People snort cocaine through rolled up bills.

At least, that’s what’s depicted in movies and television.

Amazing

Never heard of these “short snorters” before, but the tradition surrounding it reminds me of military challenge coins [0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge_coin