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Old Dec 4th 2006, 8:29 pm
  #166  
B Vaughan
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On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 17:25:16 -0500, "James Silverton"
<not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not> wrote:

    >Hello, tim.....!
    >You wrote on Mon, 4 Dec 2006 21:56:43 -0000:
    > t> Men put them in their pocket and are thus motived
    > t> to spend them. I know of no men who just discard
    > t> their change.
    >I know a number of people in their 30s, including some
    >relatives, who discard coins into a jar at night. They tell me
    >that they will take them to the bank "one of these days" but the
    >day never seems to come!

One of my daughters used to wrap up her sister's accumulated coins and
take them to the bank. (She kept the coins, of course, with her
sister's acquiesence.)
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Old Dec 4th 2006, 10:40 pm
  #167  
Tim C .
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Following up to "Mimi" <[email protected]> :

    >> I've never had a problem with small coins accumulating. I just spend
    >> them as I go along.
    >It's a tertiary sexual characteristic -- like refusing to ask directions.
    >Men empty their pockets of change and never pick it up again. And, for a
    >3.58 bill, they just offer a twenty and never check the change in their
    >pockets. Women spend their coins.

I've got one 50c and one 2c coin in my wallet. Does that make me an
honorary girl?
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Old Dec 4th 2006, 10:41 pm
  #168  
Tim C .
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    >Well, maybe I extrapolated too much from my husband.

As my biology teacher used to say "generalisation to the point of
inaccuracy".
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Old Dec 4th 2006, 11:17 pm
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Magda
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On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:40:30 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, Tim C. <[email protected]>
arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:

... Following up to "Mimi" <[email protected]> :
...
... >> I've never had a problem with small coins accumulating. I just spend
... >> them as I go along.
... >
... >It's a tertiary sexual characteristic -- like refusing to ask directions.
... >Men empty their pockets of change and never pick it up again. And, for a
... >3.58 bill, they just offer a twenty and never check the change in their
... >pockets. Women spend their coins.
...
... I've got one 50c and one 2c coin in my wallet. Does that make me an
... honorary girl?

As long as you don't try to borrow our bras, you are welcome.
 
Old Dec 5th 2006, 1:42 am
  #170  
Tim C .
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Following up to Magda <[email protected]> :


    > ... I've got one 50c and one 2c coin in my wallet. Does that make me an
    > ... honorary girl?
    >As long as you don't try to borrow our bras, you are welcome.


OK, it's a deal :-)
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Old Jan 2nd 2007, 10:09 am
  #171  
Jesper Lauridsen
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On 2006-11-23, Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Did you visit Italy in the days when there was a shortage of coins and they
> used to give packets of bubble gum as small change?

I got KitKat bars as change in Turkey this, no last, year. Not a bad deal,
as it was 50 cents worth of change, and I got 2 bars.
 

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