[USMA:19589] Re: Book by Louis

2002-04-23 Thread Louis JOURDAN
At 19:50 -0500 02/04/22, Gene Mechtly wrote: With the benefit of the information you provided, I now propose to ask my bank to transfer directly to your account 23.00 euro. I will pay any currency conversion and transfer costs at my bank, and there should then be no check cashing or currency

[USMA:19590] Re: Euro in Peril

2002-04-23 Thread Louis JOURDAN
At 12:59 -0700 02/04/22, M R wrote: We talked enough in support of Euro, now the French (Engineers behind Euro) have voted for a right-wing, anti-Euro, racist candidate as the 2nd favorite choice. What makes 17 % of French vote for a person who supports the holocaust. For some time, we should

[USMA:19591] Re: Book by Louis

2002-04-23 Thread metric
Of Louis JOURDAN (I have been told that IBAN stands for International Bank Account Number, a standard for electronic transfers). You should have no difficulties. I have made several bank to bank transfers US-UK and UK-US. It has been reasonably straightforward so far although you sometimes

[USMA:19592] Re: Euro in Peril

2002-04-23 Thread metric
Of kilopascal I would hope, if by some fete of bad luck, LePen does win the next election, Bad luck or voted in? that some decent person does the world a service and assassinate him. 'Decent person' and an assassin at the same time? Killing people you don't like or don't agree with is

[USMA:19593] IBAN : Numeric equivalent

2002-04-23 Thread M R
Hi Terry The concept of IBAN is interesting. Is there a numeric equivalent of the country bank code, so that we can do any transaction using the simple ATM. For the country, their telephone code can be used. For the banks, I think they already have a numeric swift code. Regards Madan ---

[USMA:19594] RE: IBAN : Numeric equivalent

2002-04-23 Thread metric
Of M R The concept of IBAN is interesting. Is there a numeric equivalent of the country bank code, so that we can do any transaction using the simple ATM. In effect, the IBAN is additional information put on the front of the national account number format2 of each country. Validation is

[USMA:19595] RE: IBAN : Numeric equivalent

2002-04-23 Thread metric
Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Citigroup Private Bank will be issuing IBANs numbers in September. Your IBAN will be displayed on your September statement. http://www.citibank.com/privatebank/iban.htm I have just checked and my Citibank account shows the IBAN on statements. -- Terry Simpson Human

[USMA:19596] Re: Euro in Peril

2002-04-23 Thread Stephen Davis
I am sure that anyone who knows anything about the French and French history will know that the vast majority are NOT in favour of fascism!! This result has been caused by complacency, not by a sudden upsurge of far-right thinking!! The turnouts at the polls were apparently very low.This,

[USMA:19598] Re: Book by Louis

2002-04-23 Thread chris
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 07:32:05 +0200, Louis JOURDAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 19:50 -0500 02/04/22, Gene Mechtly wrote: With the benefit of the information you provided, I now propose to ask my bank to transfer directly to your account 23.00 euro. I will pay any currency conversion and transfer

[USMA:19599] Re: Book by Louis

2002-04-23 Thread Jim Gottlieb
On 2002-04-23 at 21:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: It seems to me be by far the best way. Surely the best way is to order via FNAC (www.fnac.fr) or Alapage (www.alapage.fr)? I have bought DVDs from both, and I'm sure they would ship to the USA as well. Right. This sure

[USMA:19600] Re: Euro in Peril

2002-04-23 Thread kilopascal
2002-04-23 If a decent person had assassinated Hitler when he was first gaining power, then millions of lives would have been spared. A decent person can be an assassin if the person being assassinated is downright evil. John - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: U.S.

[USMA:19601] Re: Euro in Peril

2002-04-23 Thread James R. Frysinger
kilopascal wrote: 2002-04-23 If a decent person had assassinated Hitler when he was first gaining power, then millions of lives would have been spared. A decent person can be an assassin if the person being assassinated is downright evil. Could we limit ourselves to topics

[USMA:19602] Book by Louis

2002-04-23 Thread Gene Mechtly
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Louis JOURDAN wrote: ... Bank: BNP PARIBAS RENNES - CHAMP JACQUET Account holder: LOUIS JOURDAN Account number: 30004 00241 0025778 03 IBAN: FR76 3000 4002 4100 2577 803 Thanks for your bank information, Louis. My bank (Credit Union)

[USMA:19603] Re: Book by Louis

2002-04-23 Thread Gene Mechtly
Thanks, Terry, for the wealth of information on currency transfers. On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... IBAN will soon become mandatory for payments in Euros in the Eurozone...

[USMA:19604] Re: Book by Louis

2002-04-23 Thread Gene Mechtly
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Jim Gottlieb wrote (endorsing the following suggestion by Chris) Surely the best way is to order via FNAC (www.fnac.fr) or Alapage (www.alapage.fr)? I have bought DVDs from both, and I'm sure they would ship to the USA as well. Right... Do we know that the book by

[USMA:19605] La grande metrication

2002-04-23 Thread Gene Mechtly
Sure enough! A visit to www.alpage.fr and a search for Louis Jourdan produces La grande metrication with an opportunity to buy the book. A visit to www.fnac.fr and a search for Louis Jordan does not yield Louis' book. However, a visit to www.fnac.fr and a search for La grande metrication does

[USMA:19606] Humour (metric used) to brighten your day

2002-04-23 Thread kilopascal
PENIS TAX . The only think IRS has not yet taxed is the penis. This is due to the fact that 70% of the time it is hanging around unemployed, 3% of the time it is pissed off, 12% of the time it is hard up, and 5% of the time it's in the hole. It has two dependents, but they're nuts.

[USMA:19607] milli words

2002-04-23 Thread Barbara and/or Bill Hooper
I picked up a book of words in a book store today and found some interesting metric refernces in it. The book was a dictionary-like compilation, with definitions, of words that are often incorrectly used, incorrectly spelled or incorrectly pronounced. I don't know what the author's criteria were