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No one can beat our LOONIE !!!!! -- oh and uh.. let's not forget our TWONIE !!! Speaking of queer names for money!!
I think they should make a 1 million dollar coin!!! We'll call it The Millie - on one side there will be a Picture of Bill Gates on the other - a retro pic of Milli Vanilli !!
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I loved that episode. All of the fine actors and actresses in that episode really gave it their best. It was certainly one of the most emotionally stirring episodes of that series.
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quote:Originally posted by Peregrinus: As to the names of our coins, why do you find them odd? Quarters are quarter-dollars, dimes are one-tenth of a dollar, nickels are made of nickel. And pennies are pennies on both sides of the pond, for reasons I'm now curious to dig up...
Because, well, why not call them 25 cent, 10 cent, 5 cent, and 1 cent coins? As Tim has shown, you spend ages saying "Oh, you Brits with your silly names for your coins", but then we change them, yet you still keep to the same silly names. And you are not even consistent. Why not call dimes "small silvers", eh? FOOL!
And, seriously, I'd love to see someone jab themselves with a 20p coin. Because I could smack them in the face for being a moron.
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Also, let's not forget the Saved By The Bell where Zack and Slater proved that merely being near alcohol is enough to make you want to drive a car into the only set the show has that isn't Mr Belding's Office.
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Topher: Exactly, everything in Sweden is priced either by .50 Kronor or most oftenly without any decimal at all. I hate the .50-coins, they are impossible to pull out of the wallet and are useless in soda-machines, parking meters or for those little locks on customer carts in malls.
The359: "I have an ancient Greek coin with the face of one of Alexander's generals on it."
It wouldn't happen to be Seleukos, would it? (I'm taking a class in Religion, we're on Maccabeus)
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Yes, it was fast. I didn't listen to the newscast long enough to find out how it tied to Notre Dame, but I'm sure through some rediculous stretch, they found a way to do it.
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Easy, Aban. Notre Dame's school colors are gold and blue. The new $20 dollar bills contain the colors gold and blue. Ergo, there's a Notre Dame link to the counterfeiting chick!
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Deposit $220.00, in cash, midday Wednesday, then have to wait till Friday for it to take.... WTF is that.... I could understand an out of town or out of state check, but 2 days for cash....
I am leaving Rochester State Bank for another, staffed by stupud people with the total ability, an un-dying need to follow, stupid rules....
I may go back to National City, or the Bank of Springfield, or US Bank.... Someone that does cash transactions in real time, like my old credit union....
The rest of my family banks there and has never had a problem, so mayhap it iss just me....
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"As Tim has shown, you spend ages saying 'Oh, you Brits with your silly names for your coins', but then we change them, yet you still keep to the same silly names."
I wasn't complaining about the name "shilling". I was talking about the system they were a part of. I mean, it's bad enough that we don't use metric measurements here. But at least our money has always come in easy-to-handle units. When there's, like, 37 pence in a shilling and 15.86 shillings in a pound, or whatever*, you could spend days just trying to pay for a candy bar with loose change.
*Disclaimer: This is exaggeration. I am aware that the actual system was ever so slightly less confusing than my approximation.
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I like the new $5's but not the $10's. They are a little too gaudy for me. I hope that the $20's have a nice shade of green. My mom collects coins, she's got some franc's, and some portugese coins (what are those called?) I think there's a silver dollar in there somewhere's but I havn't seen it.
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There were 12 pence in a shilling and 20 shillings in a pound, making 240 pence in a pound.
It's a perfectly reasonable system, and is similar to how most old-fashioned measurement systems work.
No-one complains that there should be 10 inches in a foot or 100 seconds in a minute, and yet people seem to have a problem with our old money.
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