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Re: New Web Page
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 23 May 1999 10:31:44 GMT
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Terry K wrote:
> On Sun, 16 May 1999 17:51:47 GMT, cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com (Mike Stanley) wrote:
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> > The main beef I have with foreigners is that, for the most part, their
> > money is prettier than ours. Who the hell picked green as the color
> > of money?
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> Sure, lots of countries have pretty money. Some are outright garish. But I
> think the greenback has a certain understated elegance to it.
Plus a certain understated recognition value. There's a brief piece on US
currency and its legitimacy as a *global* standard of exchange in the New York
Times magazine this weekend--worth reading, even if the nationalistic hyperbole
gets tiring at times.
LFB.
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| (...) Sure, lots of countries have pretty money. Some are outright garish. But I think the greenback has a certain understated elegance to it. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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