David: > > This thread brings to mind the punch line from the second of the SNL > > "Citiwide Change Bank" ads. Here is a link to the transcript: > > > > http://snltranscripts.jt.org/88/88achangebank2.phtml
Thank you, now my keyboard is covered in coffee. ;-) > Hmmmm. > > I'd just returned from a business trip to London, and all the cash I > had was a five-pound note. > Citiwide wasn't able to convert it to dollars, but they did give me > four guineas, two crowns, four shillings, and ten pence. [...] > I make that 479.17pence decimal in exchange for five pounds (500p). > Yup, that's how Citibank make their money Well John, that's American math for you. I blame our educational system. (You would have to go add that up, wouldn't you ;-). Going completely off topic, most US banks will not convert anything other than paper currency and I have a baggie full of Euro and Pound coinage to show for it. So the fact that "Citiwide" converted the note to coins would be another win for them. Have a good holiday weekend, for those of us on this side of the pond(*). To everyone else, have a nice normal weekend. -b (*) and north of Mexico and south of Canada, unless of course you are in Alaska or Hawaii. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
