james@email-addr-hidden-dot-dat.net wrote:
>On Thu, 29 Jun, 2006 at 12:39PM -0400, Dave Phillips spake thus:
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>>james@email-addr-hidden-dot-dat.net wrote:
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>>>Now, where can I get 1 million pounds for free?
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>>There's about a million pounds of something at the White House in
>>Washington DC...
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>>Born in the USA,
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>I was born in the UK, and I think I'm missing the joke.
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It's a currency conversion joke (a poor one too). We use dollars for $$$
and pounds as a measure of weight.
Ergo: There's a million pounds of (descriptive noun deleted) on Capitol
Hill.
Ah, for the days before Babel, when all men spoke one language. I think
it was a proto-BASIC...
Best,
dp
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