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By *inaTitz OP TV/TS
over a year ago
Titz Towers, North Notts |
I was reading about currency fluctuations in the Eurozone - just the way I roll - and it struck me that there must be some weird ones out there. These jumped out at me:
Anglo - Kwanza - sounds like something a Ninja uses to garrotte you with.
Armenia - Dram - possible post independence currency for the Jocks.
Aruba - Florin - great! I found a jar full of these when we cleared out my Granddad's outhouse. I may be rich if they take 2 shilling coins.
Bhutan - Ngultrum - no wonder they don't have much of a tourist industry, no bugger can pronounce the currency, so there's no point asking how much something costs.
Costa Rica - Colon - I don't care what they're selling, I've only got the one and I'm not parting with it.
Denmark - Krone - there was a withered old lady who would never let us have our football back when I was a kid, I should have seen what sort of return I'd have gotten if I had invested her.
Estonia - Kroon - popular with buskers.
Kazakhstan - Tenge - sounds like some slang term used by people down with the kids on facebook that I never know if they are being complimentary or not.
Both Koreas - Won - they are obviously still arguing about who won the war.
Lao - Kip - it seems I may actually be earning money when I have an afternoon sleep.
Mozambique - Metical - tribute band name, or what?
Panama - Balboa - the first one you get is pretty good, but then they go downhill from there.
South Africa - Rand - I'd be in trouble for defacing that one, with a Y on the end.
Swaziland - Lilangeni - I could have sworn I've received a postcard from there when my folks went to Wales.
Vietnamese - Dong - some things don't need a joke to be funny. However, I don't know many Vietnamese restaurants that would take kindly to me whacking mine out on the counter in payment, or rather part payment.
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over a year ago
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What makes me laugh is when news presenters say "& it was a good day for the pound today & finished strongly against the dollar!" as though it was a person.
But you never hear them say. "It was a shit day for the pound today. It woke up late with a hangover, was sick everywhere before apparently having a shit & then going back to bed for the rest of the day!"  |
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