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   From: honda900f@excite.com   
      
   On May 18, 6:03 am, not Lambourn  wrote:   
   > On May 17, 7:29 pm, John Fleming  wrote:   
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   > > [Default] On Fri, 17 May 2013 12:43:36 -0500, while chained to a desk   
   > > in the scriptorium "SaPeIsMa"  wrote:   
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   > > > $"John Fleming"  wrote in message   
   > > > $news:395bp8pgguo1pldnmmhhj8vsof42hn7si8@4ax.com...   
   > > > $> [Default] On Thu, 16 May 2013 04:28:39 -0600, while chained to a desk   
   > > > $> in the scriptorium "Sharx35"  wrote:   
   > > > $>> $"Con®conž"  wrote in message   
   > > > $>> $news:UmWkt.484$1m2.22@newsfe07.iad...   
   > > > $>> $> On 5/15/2013 4:49 PM, Sharx35 wrote:   
   > > > $>> $>> Small "l" liberals are fools, often having their collective   
   > > > $>> $>> heads (no   
   > > > $>> $>> pun intended), up their collective asses.   
   > > > $>> $>   
   > > > $>> $>   
   > > > $>> $> Thanks for that valuable elucidation, based on your usual cache   
   > > > $>> $> of nothingness.   
   > > > $>> $   
   > > > $>> $So, where have all your brains gotten you? A negative net worth, no   
   > > > $>> $doubt.  Unfocused idealism and 50 cents will get you a pay phone   
   > > > $>> $call.   
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   > > > $> To think there was a time a pay phone call cost a nickel and girls   
   > > > $> like Karen could be had for $2.00.   
   > > > $   
   > > > $Ish !   
   > > > $    Even then $2.00 was way more than the product was worth   
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   > > A girl's gotta make a living somehow, right?  And if a guy is willing   
   > > to pay $2.00 . . ..   
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   > I was at the Calgary airport in the mid 1990s and purchased a pack of   
   > gum.   The guy gave me 2 $1.00 bills and a $2 bill in my change.   
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   > I asked "Why?".   
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   > He said "This is the Calgary airport, we still get tourists from the   
   > 1988 Winter Games, and they bring their money from those days with   
   > them."   
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   > By then, we'd moved on from the pink / orange $2.00 bill, and the   
   > $1.00 bill was history.   
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   > I suppose it would be like me taking out my old French Francs in Paris   
   > today.   
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   > But they would have laughed at me.   
      
   Of course, since my father was with the underground, we still have   
   Vichy Francs.   Recognized by the Nazi Occupation government, with a   
   little luck.   
      
   Or, I suppose there are some bills from the US revolution.  Southern   
   currency.   
      
   Not legal tender.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)