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Doug... wrote:
Exactly. I mean, we Americans could have sat around making fun of those
British who had a difficult time converting from Lsd currency to decimal
currency -- we've had decimal currency since the very beginning. But,
last I heard, not a single American I know ever drug the British over
the coals over that one.

Believe me, there were some. Canadians too. :-)

LOl, yeah -- just because I never heard it doesn't mean it didn't
happen. I can still remember seeing the commercials that were run
frequently during the changeover, though -- they were played in the U.S.
on news magazine shows to illustrate to us Americans what the U.K. was
going through. The jingle stayed with me becuase of the somewhat
inappropriate context that it had in America at the time:

"Remember.. LSD shops give LSD change, decimal shops give decimal
change!"

I can just imagine some American hippies watching those ads and getting
ENTIRELY the wrong idea...

Doug