11/28: New Euro money - Page 3

MaggieL · 01-04-2002, 01:20 PM

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Originally posted by Nic Name
Milkbars = Convenience Stores

Hmmm. Made me think of moloko bars from "A Clockwork Orange", but then that's a whole 'nother smoke. :-)

warch · 01-04-2002, 01:36 PM

Is there a lollie born every minute?

Joe · 01-04-2002, 02:01 PM

Didn't they have milk bars in "A Clockwork Orange"? Where they actually drank milk at a bar?

The image I remember was edgy and industrial, places where punks would go to get...milk, for whatever reason.

OK it was the deep future and everything was f*cked up accordingly, ala "Brazil" or "Airplane".

Nic Name · 01-04-2002, 02:09 PM

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Originally posted by juju2112

When I was in high school I got a job at a bank rolling coins in the vault.

They had this big machine just for rolling coins. I'd come in to work and there'd be piles and piles of bags of loose coin, each bag weighing about 10 pounds. I think one bag of quarters was $500, and a bag of pennies was $50. That's all I did -- dump bags of coins into this machine and take the resulting rolled coins and put them in boxes.

Anchorage man cashes in $7,920 worth of pennies

An Anchorage man yesterday [August 3, 2001] finished cashing in more than 792-thousand pennies. With help from a coin-processing company, 57 year old Sylvester Neal processed 288-thousand-141 pennies at a coin-counting machine in a local supermarket. Representatives of CoinStar hired an armored car to help Neal transport his heavy load. It took him until seven-45 in the evening to finish his task.

CoinStar says it's the most pennies ever processed by its machines by one person, more than doubling a record set in January by someone in Baltimore.

Neal decided to cash in most of his collection after making plans to move from Anchorage to Auburn, Washington. He previously had cashed in five-thousand dollars worth of pennies. He says the five-ton collection was too expensive to move. Neal is a retired state fire marshal. He's keeping about 200-thousand pre-1974 pennies.

juju · 01-05-2002, 12:10 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Nic Name
Milkbars = Convenience Stores
Lollies = Suckers

Dude that's seriously messed up. What other Australian slang is there?

jaguar · 01-05-2002, 12:18 AM

suckers?
what da?

jeni · 01-05-2002, 12:55 AM

jag.

lollipops.

those little balls of hard candy at the end of a rolled-up paper stick, most often white. they come in all sorts of colors and flavors. lollipops.

WORD.

juju · 01-05-2002, 01:20 AM

oh man that's funny. :]

jaguar · 01-05-2002, 01:30 AM

yea i know what they are
i've just never heard them called suckers by anyone australian before.

Stuntcheeks · 01-08-2002, 03:03 PM

Nic Name, you posted that article about CoinStar and that man w/all the coins.

I recently heard an interesting fact on NPR the other day. The US mint had to lay off 357 employees as a result of CoinStar machines.

Reason being, the change is meant to be lost, thrown away, saved in jars stashed in the seat cushions never to be seen again, etc. We (U.S.) were producing X amount of coins every year to compensate for the coins that went out of circulation.

The CoinStar machines have changed that, though. People actually 'hoard' change now just to toss it into a jar to take to CoinStar eventually.

"This year alone we’ll put through 1.3 or 1.4 billion dollars back into the economy."--Dianne Renihan is the CFO.

That's a LOT of coinage going back into circulation and a LOT of jobs being lost because of it.

I found the whole story quite interesting.

edit: screw it, link's gone...go to google like Nic said.

Nic Name · 01-08-2002, 03:16 PM

Hey stunt ... try another edit and erase the bad link.

the story can be seen in every paper by searching google using search terms coinstar mint layoffs, so a direct link to support your story is not absolutely necessary here.

Joe · 01-08-2002, 05:58 PM

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For the mint, lower production means lower profits because it charges the Federal Reserve for the full face value of a coin... The mint sends the balance to the U.S. Treasury to pay for other government operations.

So our government pays itself to make money?

That's it, I'm opening a new country right now.

CharlieG · 01-09-2002, 07:45 AM

Hear this one yesterday

In Europe you can't loose a penny anymore, now you Euronate

Nic Name · 01-09-2002, 09:29 AM

Pissing away a fortune in the common market will be euronation.

Nic Name · 01-12-2002, 01:56 AM

It's an old wives tale that if you have itchy palms you're coming into money ...
or is it you're gonna hafta pay out some money ... or are you just allergic to the euro?

01-04-2002, 02:01 PM	#33
Joe Master of the Domain Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: AZ Posts: 221	milkbars = milk bars? Didn't they have milk bars in "A Clockwork Orange"? Where they actually drank milk at a bar? The image I remember was edgy and industrial, places where punks would go to get...milk, for whatever reason. OK it was the deep future and everything was f*cked up accordingly, ala "Brazil" or "Airplane".

01-05-2002, 12:18 AM	#36
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	suckers? what da? __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

01-05-2002, 01:30 AM	#39
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	yea i know what they are i've just never heard them called suckers by anyone australian before. __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

01-08-2002, 03:03 PM	#40
Stuntcheeks Kinda New Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 1	Nic Name, you posted that article about CoinStar and that man w/all the coins. I recently heard an interesting fact on NPR the other day. The US mint had to lay off 357 employees as a result of CoinStar machines. Reason being, the change is meant to be lost, thrown away, saved in jars stashed in the seat cushions never to be seen again, etc. We (U.S.) were producing X amount of coins every year to compensate for the coins that went out of circulation. The CoinStar machines have changed that, though. People actually 'hoard' change now just to toss it into a jar to take to CoinStar eventually. "This year alone we’ll put through 1.3 or 1.4 billion dollars back into the economy."--Dianne Renihan is the CFO. That's a LOT of coinage going back into circulation and a LOT of jobs being lost because of it. I found the whole story quite interesting. edit: screw it, link's gone...go to google like Nic said. Last edited by Stuntcheeks; 01-08-2002 at 03:26 PM.

01-09-2002, 07:45 AM	#43
CharlieG Hoodoo Guru Join Date: May 2001 Posts: 301	Can't drop a dime anymore Hear this one yesterday In Europe you can't loose a penny anymore, now you Euronate

01-04-2002, 01:36 PM	#32
warch lurkin old school Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Minnesota Posts: 2,796	Is there a lollie born every minute?

01-05-2002, 12:55 AM	#37
jeni is stuck on altair-4 Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: santa cruz, california Posts: 514	jag. lollipops. those little balls of hard candy at the end of a rolled-up paper stick, most often white. they come in all sorts of colors and flavors. lollipops. WORD.

01-05-2002, 01:20 AM	#38
juju no one of consequence Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Arkansas Posts: 2,839	oh man that's funny. :]

01-08-2002, 03:16 PM	#41
Nic Name retired Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 1,930	Hey stunt ... try another edit and erase the bad link. the story can be seen in every paper by searching google using search terms coinstar mint layoffs, so a direct link to support your story is not absolutely necessary here.

01-09-2002, 09:29 AM	#44
Nic Name retired Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 1,930	Pissing away a fortune in the common market will be euronation.

01-12-2002, 01:56 AM	#45
Nic Name retired Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 1,930	It's an old wives tale that if you have itchy palms you're coming into money ... or is it you're gonna hafta pay out some money ... or are you just allergic to the euro?

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