on Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 06:52:04AM -0800, David Honig (honig@sprynet.com) wrote:
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.
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