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11-07-2002, 08:37 AM
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A Ghostly Light
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: My private bubble of innocence
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Wow, that was deep, HI. I think I marked my 1000th post. I think I'll go see if I can find it.
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02-04-2005, 07:20 PM
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Animated Skeleton
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Locked in an ivory tower
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Too intellectual (?) for me. I shall not even bother to pretend that I am not thoroughly and utterly bamboozled
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02-04-2005, 08:27 PM
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Dead Serious
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Perched on Thangorodrim's towers.
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I almost have to wonder if I'm not responsible for this thread's current active status. Right before it got bounced back to the top of the forum in the last few days, I ended a post with, what else?, something about my "2 cents worth".
Of course, that might be somewhat too arrogant of me to think that, so I really ought to counter with a dose of "humility" and end this post now. Just my 2 cents worth! 
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02-06-2005, 02:50 PM
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Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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I am surprised that noone has yet mentioned the British equivalent - not as HI assumes "tuppence" but "ten pennorth" which appears to come from wartime food rationing (WW1), but also in my extreme youth would buy you a portion of chips.....
So at current exchange rates, does this mean that the contributions of UK resident downers are almost 20 times more valuable than those of their US counterparts?  And well if we compare with Australian, NZ, Canadian and Singaporean cents ... well the situation gets better ..or worse ...
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02-06-2005, 10:11 PM
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Regal Dwarven Shade
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: A Remote Dwarven Hold
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What will the expression become if you go to the euro?
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02-07-2005, 01:08 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: here, there, everywhere...
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02-07-2005, 07:52 AM
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Regal Dwarven Shade
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: A Remote Dwarven Hold
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*sigh* That just does not have the same ring to it...
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02-09-2005, 12:26 PM
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Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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Well that is quite a big "If" but considering the inflation in many of the Euroland countries ....... it will probably be "my eurosworth" ...... in reality, I imagine we will still say ten pennorth ..... for a long time. After all my father took a good 25 years to adapt to decimal currency. Also I expect that people would start to refer to euros as quids.... and cents as pence regardless of what it says on the coins...especially since we use "plastic money" increasingly. Of course children who do use coins and have never known anything else will look at there elders either as hopelessly backward or amusingly quaint...... but then there is always something which will inspire these opinions ....so no change there :P
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