Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!hao!noao!hsi!archer From: archer@hsi.UUCP (Garry Archer) Newsgroups: net.internat Subject: Re: I hate to say I told you so... Message-ID: <305@hsi.UUCP> Date: Thu, 30-Jan-86 09:13:44 EST Article-I.D.: hsi.305 Posted: Thu Jan 30 09:13:44 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Feb-86 20:41:44 EST References: <274@ivax.icdoc.UUCP> <1762@cbosgd.UUCP> <270@stl.UUCP> <762@ucsfcgl.UUCP> <783@stc-b.stc.UUCP> Organization: Health Systems Int., New Haven, CT. Lines: 23 > Not much, in view of the usual trading relationship between > the two currencies. > > Anyone remember when five bob was called a `dollar' and > a half-crown a `half-dollar'? > -- > Peter Kendell > *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** *** NO THANKS, I'LL REPLACE THIS LINE, THANK YOU! *** Aye, and remember the days when you could go to the chippie for "a tanner o' chips 'n' a cod for a bob... any batter bits, mate?" Oh the good old days, now I'm REALLY homesick... I should never have mentioned the chippie. Next I'll be thinking of Marston's Pedigree... ARGH NO! Now I've done it! Anyway, its really nice to see articles from netlanders back home in good old Great Britain, now I'm glad I subscribed to this newsgroup! Ta, mates! Garry Archer, Health Systems International, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.