Re: [OT] Voting schemes

On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:32:36 +1100 Beth.Fulton@csiro.au writes:
>G'day,
>
>> One Currency, the UN "Worldo" (copycat credit to the pathetic 
>> Euro name)which is pegged to the price of Chocolate.
>
>Now that's my kinda currency!!
>

Would make spending it harder if it was chocolate itself but when that
was tried out in 2235 on small focus groups for opinion everyone
literally ate up their profits.

>By the way we had a visiting European scientist tell us that they'd
>originally thought of calling the Euro the European Monetary Unit, but 
>then
>someone pointed out that an emu was a flightless Aussie bird, so they
>swapped to Euro (the guy may have been having us on, but that's what 
>he
>said)... little did they obviously realise that there is a small 
>Aussie
>marsupial rodent that goes by the name uro, so now every time they 
>talk
>about European currency I immediately think small and fuzzy ;)
>
>Beth
>
>

LOL!  I love to see a bureaucracy tap dance around a mud hole only to
fall into a  outhouse!

Gracias,
Glenn/Triphibious@juno.com
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