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Started by Korea, March 10, 2009, 06:24:26 AM

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Sheilbh

Quote from: mongers on April 30, 2013, 05:37:07 PM
Somewhat symbolically we're soon getting Churchill on one of our notes, it'll be on the fiver.  :(
I think he should have been saved for the 2040s, not the centenary of WWI...:mellow:
Let's bomb Russia!

Tonitrus

If Charles becomes King, do you guys have to swap out all the currency?  :D

Grey Fox

Quote from: Tonitrus on April 30, 2013, 07:27:18 PM
If Charles becomes King, do you guys have to swap out all the currency?  :D
Not swap out but they'll design new ones with his face, yes.

There's still Georgy coins around.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

mongers

Quote from: Grey Fox on April 30, 2013, 07:36:49 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on April 30, 2013, 07:27:18 PM
If Charles becomes King, do you guys have to swap out all the currency?  :D
Not swap out but they'll design new ones with his face, yes.

There's still Georgy coins around.

Whereas here, only the queen now figures on all legal tender, in large part due to decimalisation in the first third of her reign. 
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Sheilbh

Quote from: Tonitrus on April 30, 2013, 07:27:18 PM
If Charles becomes King, do you guys have to swap out all the currency?  :D
Eventually. I actually think the Queen only came onto the notes in the 60s, prior to that it was just Britannia.
Let's bomb Russia!


HVC

Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

garbon

"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

CountDeMoney

Quote from: HVC on April 30, 2013, 10:10:11 PM
Fuck i'm bored.

Pfft, do what I do and masturbate.

Between the post-orgasmic drowsiness and the crying, you'll be asleep in no time.

HVC

Quote from: CountDeMoney on April 30, 2013, 10:38:54 PM
Quote from: HVC on April 30, 2013, 10:10:11 PM
Fuck i'm bored.

Pfft, do what I do and masturbate.

Between the post-orgasmic drowsiness and the crying, you'll be asleep in no time.
:lol: :unsure:
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

CountDeMoney


derspiess

"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Syt

From Gilbert's "The Second World War", an episode from May 13th:

QuoteAt five o'clock that morning King George VI, asleep in Buckingham Palace, was woken by a police sergeant to be told that the Dutch Queen, Wilhelmina, wished to speak to him. "I did not believe him," the King wrote in his diary, "but went to the telephone and it was her. She begged me to send aircraft for the defence of Holland. I passed the message on to everyone concerned and went back to bed." The King commented: "It is not often that one is rung up at that hour, and especially by a Queen. But in these days anything may happen, and far worse things, too."
:lol:
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—Stephen Jay Gould

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Liep

In 45 minutes the police will be testing the warning system installed in every city in Denmark, as they do every year on the first wednesday in may. Each year the news are running stories about how thousands of people call the police telling them there's a strange loud noise. And each year I'm surprised by how stupid some people are. My memory sucks too. :(
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CountDeMoney

Video of that National Air Cargo 747 going down at Bagram Air Base on Monday.

http://youtu.be/vo51Be2jL8c

Looks like it simply stalled and dropped.  7 fatalities.