The 'Paying Bills with Spider Drawings' meme stems from a viral 2008 email exchange by Australian satirist David Thorne. After receiving a notification for an overdue utility bill, Thorne replied by attaching a drawing of a seven-legged spider, claiming its value was equivalent to the amount owed. The deadpan humor and the escalating frustration of the customer service representative—who insisted the spider had no monetary value and was missing a leg—turned the conversation into an internet classic. Today, the meme represents the absurdity of debt, creative procrastination, and the use of surrealist humor to deal with corporate bureaucracy.