[rescue] my new sig

[Stephen D. B. Wolthusen]

Hi,

On 27-Jun-2002 Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> ssandau at bath.tmac.com wrote:
>> 
>> Hmmm. As I remember, God apparently had quite a bit to do with the
>> founding of this country. Don't I remeber that God figures rather
>> prominently in the Declaration of Independence? Do we now have to
>> re-mint all our coins because we don't trust in God any more?
> 
> No, because the motto was really not "In G-D we trust". It was minted that
> way
> because there wasn't enough room for the real motto:
> 
>       "In G-D we trust, all others pay cash."

Nah, that's too close to advertisement. See, G-D is the common abbreviation for
``Giesecke & Devrient'', which incidentially is one of the world's largest
manufacturers of bills (as in currency, a number of countries outsource this
job even across national borders), bonds, stock certificates etc. 

Visions of paralegals painstakingly pasting ``trust nobody'' across dollar
bills... Gnnh. And I thought the laugh test was something unique to engineering.



-- 

        later,
        Stephen

Stephen Wolthusen (stephen at wolthusen.com)