27 Nov
2001
27 Nov
'01
11:35 a.m.
At 05:21 PM 11/26/01 -0800, georgemw@speakeasy.net wrote:
Cows might have served well as currency for primitives like the Etruscans, but can you imagine using them today? I took a bus this morning, the fair was 1.10 and I only had paper money so they ripped me off 90 cents. But if I was an Etruscan, they would've taken my whole cow!
You would have gotten a goat and two chickens in change.