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Ted Ashton <[log in to unmask]>
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Thus it was written in the epistle of Gavin Scott,
> Ted asks:
> >   What are you going to do with the 26,000,000 coins now?
>
> I only have one physical coin with me,

Oh, well, it was worth a try ;-)

>                                        which is one of these which I picked
> up at lunch:
>
>    http://www.usmint.gov/goldendollar/

I like those.  I think that they should've made them just a little larger,
since human perception tends to be logarithmical, but otherwise, I'm pretty
happy with them.

> Other than that, the rest of them were virtual coins realized in BASIC/V.

Hey, a BASIC/V coin should be legal tender somewhere.  I wonder if you can
by enchiladas with them in New Mexico.

> After I get a couple more of the new coins mentioned above, maybe I'll be
> able to afford lunch at Taco-Bell:
>
>    http://www.milk.com/wall-o-shame/two_dollars.html

<*chuckle*>

Ted
--
Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University
          ==========================================================
Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity
crystallized out of comparative chaos.
                                      -- Bell, Eric Temple (1883-1960)

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