Klarinet Archive - Posting 000104.txt from 2004/03

From: "Fred Wilson" <fred.wilson@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Fwd: [SMB] Dont Amend Protest
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 14:29:31 -0500

Oh, yeah we would and do. When I take people to UK invariably they spend
pounds by the handful thinking they are worth only 25 cents.

Fred
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Pay" <tony.p@-----.org>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Fwd: [SMB] Dont Amend Protest

> In message <00b601c40082$e4d92100$3920030a@-----.local>
> "Fred Wilson" <fred.wilson@-----.edu> wrote, in part:
>
> > We would confuse pound coins with quarters...
>
> I really don't think you would....
>
> Apropos nothing in particular, do you know that in the era of the
> Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, we Brits used to call pound
> coins, 'maggies'?
>
> So, why was a pound coin called a maggie?
>
> Well, it was called a maggie because 'it thought it was a sovereign'.
>
> Tony
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