>-----Original Message----- >From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of >Anne Wilson >Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 11:16 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: OT Spammer Mark Kabore on this list > >On Friday 05 September 2008 09:45:32 Sorin@Gmail wrote: >> Lanny Marcus <> scribbled on Friday, September 05, 2008 12:18 AM: >> >> You have been approved for payment the sum of ?1,000,000:00 (One >> >> Million Great British Pounds) >> > >> > Like everyone else on the list, we could use the $.... >> >> "Great British Pound"? I didn't know UK stopped using Pounds Sterling... >> ;-) > >They haven't, but GBP was the recognised way of defining it in telex days :-). >Those machines didn't have a '£' sign. No, I meant somebody actually calling it "Great British Pounds" instead of pounds sterling or quids. It was a referral to the mentioned bad English in the original mail. 8-) In fact the first thing I came to think about was huge like 1m in diameter coins and bed sheet-sized notes. ;-)
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