[geeks] Now for something completely geek

Joost van de Griek jvdg at sparcpark.net
Sun Aug 27 15:18:55 CDT 2006


On 8/27/06 10:02 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 09:44:17PM +0200, Joost van de Griek wrote:
>
>> Although some of it quite nicely illustrates the original point of this
>> discussion: when the euro was just introduced, I got a lot of spam, targeted
>> at Americans, on how to acquire your own "euro dollar" and own a piece of
>> history. Apparently, the genius that thought up that scam was one of those
>> rigid-minded people that couldn't imagine any currency being called anything
>> but "dollar".
> 
> I believe that is actually the correct name of it. "Euro" is just a shorthand.

Then I suppose you also think changing to UTC will make the sun rise in the
evening?

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