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Sorry, I'm an Iced-teetotaler, and thusly have no incentive to get myself or anyone else drunk.
Unless they send me coinage.
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The attempt failed. I will no longer be accepting delivery of any parcels wrapped in oily brown paper, thank you.
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"And what do you expect the dime to say on it? "One tenth of a dollar"?"
No. I expect it to say "ten cents".
"Sure, it could follow the "one cent" and "five cents" of the penny and nickel, but that assumes you know what a "cent" is. And, if you don't know what a dime is, you probably don't know a cent, either."
In a quick poll of family and friends (who are at university), almost all of them knew that there were 100 cents in a dollar. Just under half knew or guessed what a quarter was. One person knew what a dime was. And until a few posts ago, I had no idea what a nickel was. Your assumption is wrong Tim.
"So how much is a guinea in the UK? I keep reading about them in historical novels, so maybe they're not in use anymore."
No we don't. We use pennies, and pounds. Christ people, do you think we still have chimney sweeps with unconvincing cockney accents breaking into song too?
"I'd rather carry a wallet with paper then a pocket with coins, sorry."
Jeff, we're talking about dollar coins. One dollar. Not twenty dollars. You have 5 dollar notes right? Then you should never have more than 4 coins in your wallet anyway.
Or is that why all your money is the same? So you can have a wallet full of single dollar bills, and drive around in your jeep saying "ooh, look at me. I have a wallet filled with notes that, altogether, can buy me 3 Happy Meals. La la I'm a big stupid head"?
There were no suncoasts anywhere near me. Arse.
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I can see it now. Pizza delivery guys having to distribute their dollar coins evenly between left and right jeans pockets, otherwise they'll be unbalanced, and their scooters will fall over, leading to topping slippage! Disaster!
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Why'd you need twenty single notes on you anyway? Are people that demanding about what form their change comes in? Can't you have one 10, one 5, and five 1s? (At Pizza Hut, I had to have �10 on me in change, but since I could get new change everytime I returned to the restaurant, there wasn't any real problems.)
Ah! I know! The added weight of twenty coins would cause your jeep to consume more petrol, thereby making you spend more money than you make, causing you to pursue pimpage as a career. You get fat, lose your hair, and become a republican. You're right. Dollar coins are evil!
Tim: As Sol was going for (I think), while it may be obvious to you that a quarter would refer to one quarter of a dollar, for all us other countries who don't use quaint terms to refer to our smaller money units, its not immedietly obvious. Besides, shouldn't you call a dime a "tenth" then?
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