IT LIVES!!

[Jim Haseltine]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kent McLean" <kentmclean at mindspring.com>

> --
> Tom Nas wrote:
> >found the equivalent of $12 in small change under the seats.
> >Being of the old currency (guilders instead of euros) it was worthless,
> >though...
>
> I can see, a few years from now, a young kid looking up
> at his father and asking ...
>
> "What's a guilder (pound/franc/mark/lira/punt/...), Daddy?"

I got very annoyed one day when my daughter asked "Whats an inch?".
She now knows 'proper' units _and_ their conversion to metric.

She can't handle LSD pounds but as we lost them 30-odd years ago I 'm not
going to push it, recognises the coins pretty well though.


Regards,

Jim Haseltine