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Re: EuroCurrency

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From: Stephen Parkin
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 00:00
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In article <32B56E91.6FBD@dev.madge.com>, Ian Griffiths
<URL:mailto:igriffit@dev.madge.com> wrote:

[snip]
 
> Yeah - you have blue, brown and purple beer tokens these days.  
> And those little round half-beer (down to third-beer, depending 
> on whether you're in a nightclub or not) tokens.
> 
> Not as depressing as Ford Prefect buying six pints of beer, and 
> being told by the bar man:  "Keep the change?  From a fiver?", 
> where the bar man wasn't meaning "Are you taking the piss or 
> something?  Give us the rest!"

Hmm. It doesn't seem too long ago when a Friday night round of 5 pints was a
pound (note). :-(

-- 
 Stephen Parkin                     <URL:mailto:stephen@spcap.demon.co.uk>

... Could you continue your petty bickering? I find it most interesting
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From: Stephen Parkin <stephen@spcap.demon.co.uk>
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Date: 1996/12/17
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