>  GP> Yeah, stores here have been requesting payment by card, if possible
 >  GP> (but most still accept coins)

 >   I usually just pay with the debit card.

I do when I can, but if I only have cash (like if I take out some of my stock
sales from the other bank in cash (they charge me $2 per transcation, so
Interac debit's out for me) I'll use it.


  >  GP> There was a $3 bill, legal tender, long ago, in Utah.  It failed.

 >   There was a $2 bill years ago...I still have the one my late father
 > gave me.

The US $2 bill is still issued & is legal tender.  

The gift shop at Monticello makes a point of including one in your change
whenever possible. (I'm guessing Jefferson is on the $2 bill)

People stopped using $2 billsd because the church said they were evil, as 
that was the typical bill used for horse racing bets.

Same up here; in the prairies & the east provinces, you'd not see them, bu
here in BC, they were common (anytime yourchange was 2, 3 or $4-something, 
you got $2 bill(s) in your change.  Now, ity's a $2 coin only & they're
treated like quarters (no biggie, just heavy if you collect too many in your
pocket, especially as the $1 is also a coin)

 >  >   They are still talking about ending manufacturing of the pennies, and
 >  > upping all prices to end in 5 or 0, with tax.

 >  GP> We did this a while ago -- so much less change to tote around!

 >   I like to have a small pouch/coin purse for my change...although I
 > normally don't carry that much change with me.

I had a wonderful little change purse -- easy one-handed action, but that
dollar store shut down now. . . (high rises going in there; the crappy strip
mall sold for over $20M); I give my $2 & $1 coinms to the homeless when I see
them.

  >  >   Never mind Grandma Dynamite in an episode of The Flintstones.

 >  GP> Refresh my memory, please?

 >   She went and robbed the banks, and changed the assets to what she had
 > left...63 cents. At the end, they thought it was Wilma's Mother-In-Law
 > who was the guilty party.

I dont recall that one; just the one where the 'old lady' was printing money 
& hired another iold lady (Wilma, in costume) to be her assistant & go buy
things, always with $100 bills (laundering the funny money the hard way)

 >  GP> Yup, they do love to spend; our houses are the same. . .

 >   Both parties accuse the other of "tax and spend". Talk about the pot
 > calling the kettle black.

You know itZ1 If you get to be age 30 & don't understand this, you shouldn't
be allowed to vote, I say!

Mark Twain said it best: "It doesn't matter who you vote for, the "Damned
Government" gets in anyway!

 >   That works, too. I need to stop answering messages and go eat!!

My son just brought up my lunch. (my daughter had just gone to McD to pick up
lunces for all)

I'm almost done my mocha, then lunch is over. (my 2-hour work day finished at
noon)

 
 > ... Does "MNP-5" mean "Modem needs a 5 topping pizza"??

Works for me! But I prefer "modemmer" as my modem doesn't eat pizza, but I 
do!

Your friend,

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Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM
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