Re: Coins vs. bills: La Cicciolina

2002-04-12 Thread Anonymous
quite an unappealing trollop. however, the photos did give me quite a chuckle http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_505510.html or better yet in italian! http://www.cybercore.com/cicciolina/

Re: Coins vs. bills

2002-04-12 Thread Peter Gutmann
Ken Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For some reason the mention of a Susan B Anthony dollar stuck in my brain as an Alice B Sheldon dollar. Susan Anthony is a person who I've never heard of. I'm almost tempted not to find out who she is or was to preserve a nugget of delicious cognitive

Re: Coins vs. bills

2002-04-12 Thread Bill Stewart
Ken Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For some reason the mention of a Susan B Anthony dollar stuck in my brain as an Alice B Sheldon dollar. Susan Anthony is a person who I've never heard of. I'm almost tempted not to find out who she is or was to preserve a nugget of delicious cognitive

Re: Coins vs. bills

2002-04-12 Thread Bill Stewart
At 09:00 PM 04/11/2002 +0100, Ken Brown wrote: Trei, Peter wrote: Mea culpa. It's been a long time since I read 'Dangerous Visions'. Must be, seeing as Harlequin was published in Galaxy magazine, then reprinted in Ellison's Paingod and other Delusions, not in DV which was an

Re: Coins vs. bills: La Cicciolina

2002-04-12 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 10:10 AM +0200 on 4/12/02, Anonymous wrote: quite an unappealing trollop. however, the photos did give me quite a chuckle http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_505510.html or better yet in italian! http://www.cybercore.com/cicciolina/ ...and here I thought we were talking about Madonna

Re: Coins vs. bills

2002-04-12 Thread Michael Motyka
Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 10:05 PM, Peter Gutmann wrote: (And bear in mind that a one dollar coin is worth about what a quarter ($0.25) was worth in 1970, and about what a dime ($0.10) was worth when silver dollars were still common. Maybe we need a $10

Re: Coins vs. bills

2002-04-11 Thread Ken Brown
For some reason the mention of a Susan B Anthony dollar stuck in my brain as an Alice B Sheldon dollar. Susan Anthony is a person who I've never heard of. I'm almost tempted not to find out who she is or was to preserve a nugget of delicious cognitive dissonance. A world in which governments put

RE: Coins vs. bills

2002-04-11 Thread Trei, Peter
Ken Brown[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Anyway, no-one has yet come up with a convincing reason for me to want to carry any kind of electronic wallet for small transactions. Anything under, say, 50 dollars American, is more easily done in physical cash money. If nothing else the irritation

Re: Coins vs. bills

2002-04-11 Thread Ken Brown
Trei, Peter wrote: [...snip...] what you said is all true but the benefit (as you pointed out) is primarily to the retailer, not the shopper. All this doesn't apply to higher-value transactions of course. Ken, when was the last time you paid for a call from a UK public phone with coins?