Credit card

ask mum

ask bank for an overdraft

sell some stuff

ask a friend

ask your boss for an advance on your wages(if you have a job)

get a job?

Live on a shoe string budget for a month or two

Sell some drugs for Mr Big

gun running?

invent wireless electricity

give 200 five-dollar blow jobs?

It's not illegal in all parts of the US. I think there are legal brothels in Nevada. Take the 2nd exit off of route....wait...I mean I think there are legal brothels, a "friend" told me about them...really.

What can I say, the sex industry sells, if you're a hot girl who doesn't mind the seediness of these kinds of jobs there's probably no faster legal way to make a grand than to dance.

As for less unseemly ways to get it, sell stuff and reduce your bills. You can find roommates on roomster or other such sites. (I'm assuming you're renting.) If you have cable get rid of it, you can watch tv online with Hulu or other sites. If you have a landline and cellie, get rid of the landline.

You could try panhandling but I find it much faster and more efficient to run up to bums grab their cups and run. due to the fact I eat 3 times a day and have running shoes I can easily outrun them. If they chase you, run away yelling bad touch at the top of your lungs, the cops will invariably stop them instead of you.