Re: [Thinkpad] Website live

E Brown wrote:
> On Sun, 9 May 2004 17:33:41 -1000, "David Ross" <ross@math.hawaii.edu>
> wrote:
>>Bruce - if you have any UK currency lying around the house, I'll gladly
>>buy some from you; how does 50 genuine US cents for every toy UK pound
>>sound?-)
>
> Grr, don't remind me. Growing up in KY at age 8 or nine, a bunch of
> us got funny-looking British money, coins and bills, from an uncle
> who'd been in the service and stationed in England. We ran to the
> local candy to spend them. and the clerk's method of exchange was to
> match the coins to the value of similar-sized or -looking US coins
> ("Ehh, that's about the size of a quarter, and that one's brown so
> call it a penny.") and the 1 and 5 pound notes to dollars. :-)

The UK went decimal (ie. 100 pence to the pound) in 1971, prior to that
it was a complicated system going back hundreds of years. Those coins
and notes would be of interest to collectors now but then again you
enjoyed the candy, didn't you? ;-)

Liz

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