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On 2018-02-09, ma...@mail.com <ma...@mail.com> wrote:

> On 2018-02-08, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On 2018-02-08, Dave Garland <dave.g...@wizinfo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2/7/2018 8:39 PM, John Levine wrote:
>>>
>>>> In article <p5g9ut$oks$1...@dont-email.me>,
>>>> Dave Garland  <dave.g...@wizinfo.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> 	You can't pay taxes in bitcoin, therefore it isn't money.
>>>>>
>>>>> You're not allowed to send them cash, so that's not money either?
>>>> 
>>>> My town and village are delighted to accept tax payments in cash.  If
>>>> you have some you don't want, I'd be happy to come pick it up.
>>>
>>> Your town and village, maybe. Try that with the feds, who're the ones 
>>> that minted it. UK pound notes are money, 
>>
>> No they aren't. The pound note was withdrawn in 1988.
>
> And withdrawn in favour of a heavy coin. A comedian that worked on
> the North sea oil rigs said that the audience would throw pound
> coins at people who did not amuse.

I've heard the pound coin referred to as a Thatcher because it's
thick, brassy, and thinks it's a sovereign.

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