Mist.
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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." -Jimi Hendrix
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Post by Mist. on Apr 15, 2008 21:38:44 GMT -5
In the end, they should consider themselves lucky.
Coincidental enough, on Saturday there was a house that caught on fire out here, it was in the country... Aswell took the fire department about 30 minutes to get there (also in the country)
As I read that much, I thought it was the same thing but the turnout was different.
It was a house, not a barn...
There were 2 adults and 2 children,
The mother Died.... The 2 children (1 about 8... other about 15) died.
And the father barely survived.
Such a tragedy. It was just outside of my town, I didn't know them though.
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Post by Mahnarch on Apr 16, 2008 1:09:30 GMT -5
Well, I guess I was told wrong - I didn't bother to wiki anything. It was all from memory back in junior high.
I guess I do lose.
I'll just go over there and stand by the ficus.......
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Ohhh, Mist.
Your event is a ton worse. That sucks!
It must've been a night time fire?
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Post by Blastgirl on Apr 16, 2008 1:16:44 GMT -5
That is worse Mist. That Man is going to have a hard time with life after losing his Wife and two children that way.
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Post by fartinggurl on Apr 18, 2008 20:10:41 GMT -5
Sorry to hear about your neighbor's barn. Glad to hear you saved the horses in time.
Also to Mist, that was awful to hear about. I feel so bad for that man; losing his wife and two children.
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Mist.
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Post by Mist. on Apr 18, 2008 20:56:42 GMT -5
Well, I guess I was told wrong - I didn't bother to wiki anything. It was all from memory back in junior high. I guess I do lose. I'll just go over there and stand by the ficus....... *** Ohhh, Mist. Your event is a ton worse. That sucks! It must've been a night time fire? morning fire and yea it was tragic |
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Post by tractakid on Apr 20, 2008 2:40:20 GMT -5
Sorry to hear about the barn, the house, and all the lost stuff. About the Sockets (whats an outlet? isnt that some sort of shop?) the best, and british one is the third one down.  Usually there are switches so you can turn the power off 'at the wall'. Batteries seem identical, especially if you have cylindrical batteries of various sizes with a smooth end and a knob at the other end, negative and positive respectively. And for small items, you have button batteries? |
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Post by Mahnarch on Apr 20, 2008 3:37:07 GMT -5
Ah, ha! So our batteries are the same - it seems - but, the appliances (with the big voltage/amperage) are different! I assume, Guest190, that you have AAA, AA, C, D and 9v batteries in your area? We got 'button' batteries that look like fat, tiny coins for pagers and smaller electronical stuffs. Cell phone batteries look like a slice of cheddar cheese but, they're metal/battery stuff.....and [/i]not[/i] cheese. [i.e. - don't put it in your mouth...] [We call sockets 'outlets' on this side of the pond - because they 'out let' power....maybe?] Hey! We got Thomas Edison! So we can name them our way!  |
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Post by tractakid on Apr 25, 2008 1:59:33 GMT -5
identical batteries. TBH I think that the sockets here in england are that design as a mistake. Oh well, they work. The top of the 3 pins is an earth pin where any excess power can be dumped back into the mains And yes I did know why they are called 'out lets' |
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Post by Mahnarch on Apr 25, 2008 3:23:12 GMT -5
Ah, Our 'Third' prong is also a 'ground' for excess voltage/amps.
They are especially used on any appliance that has a metal casing or deals with water.
Only, our third pin is on the bottom.......you know....toward the ground.......or something.
I'm just grabbing in the air for that one but, given American history, I wouldn't put it past the inventors.
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You know what I've always thought would be fascinating?
Getting to know people from different countries and exchanging money - only, I've never been able to "meet" someone online that's comfortable to exchange formal addresses.
I would like to get together with several people from several countries and send them $1USD in exchange for an equivalent of their paper money.
I've never been to France or England or India, etc...but, a nice, cheap 'souviner' from said countries would be great and it's an equal change of hands.
I get a paper "Pound" and a Brit gets an American "Dollar", if they've never been over here.
I'm trustworthy, I know that but, I've never met someone who's willing to extend a hand.
I do get plenty of Canadian money, though.
Our vending machines won't take it and it makes me angry when it's the only coinage I have on me!!
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Post by tractakid on Apr 25, 2008 10:49:53 GMT -5
well, slight problem. Coins: 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, £1, £2. Paper money starts at £5, which taking $1 at 50p, is $10. The other notes are £10, £20 and £50
so you would have to have a £1 coin or spend five times as much for paper.
So in the USA there are cents dimes quaters dollars and all that, I know the value of $1 but am copletely clueless on the rest. Could you do me a favour and explain to me what each coin is worth in dollars, and what paper notes you have.
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Post by Phil on Apr 25, 2008 13:22:24 GMT -5
Penny 1 cent. Cent meaning 1/100. therefore 100 pennies makes a dollar.
nickel 5 cents. So 20 nickels make a dollar.
dime 10 cents. Therefore 10 dimes equals a dollar.
quarter 25 cents. 4 quarters = a dollar.
There is such thing as a half dollar or 50 cent piece but they're not circulated often.
There is also dollar coins. The old style was called a 'silver dollar.' There's newer dollar coins that are gold. For a brief time there were 'Susan B Anthony dollars' being minted. They were minted for a short time but once in a while you see 1.
Mainly it's just penny, nickel, dime and quarter for coins.
Paper currency,
1 dollar
rarely but occasionally there's 2 dollar bills circulated
5 dollar bill
10 dollar bill
20 dollar bill.
50 dollar bill
100 dollar bill.
The treasury uses bills that are not circulated in public but there is such thing as a
500 dollar bill
1000 dollar bill
5000 dollar bill
25000 dollar bill
and
100000 dollar bill.
Since the 1980s nothing larger than 100 dollar bills are in circulation.
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Post by edlin on May 1, 2008 23:54:03 GMT -5
^ As an American, I can verify this. Nice write-up, Phil!
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Post by tractakid on May 2, 2008 2:07:50 GMT -5
rarely but occasionally (contradiction?)
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Post by Phil on May 2, 2008 13:21:44 GMT -5
Lots of things in life are contradictory.
But you see a 2 dollar bill occasionally but the siting is rare. I didn't know how else to put it.
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Post by Mahnarch on May 2, 2008 23:58:47 GMT -5
Ha! Funny you mention the $2 bill as, I happen to have one right here on top of my computer desk.
I keep it as a keepsake and I actually bought it from a customer.
It's crisp, too. Never been folded.
OH, and Phil, you forgot about the Bill Clinton $3 bill....
Nice write up.
Adding to the dollar coins, though.
For a while we had the golden Saquegawea(?) coin in honor of the Indian guide that traveled with Louis and Clark to the Pacific.
And just recently, we've got the.....oh crap, who's on the new one? Jefferson?
Anyway, I went to a change maker with a $10 and I got a bunch of quarters for the vending machines and a bunch of, what I thought were, casino or arcade tokens until I looked closer.
Some day I'll replace Lincoln on the penny because I'll be known as 'The Froogle President'.
I don't need no big, fancy, bullet-proof limo!
I'll tool around in my bullet-proof Kia Sephia....
Anyways, on our coins, from largest to smallest is:
Penny - Abraham Lincoln.
Nickel - ...dang it, gotta look.. - Thomas Jefferson
Dime - Franklin Roosevelt
Quarter - George Washinton
Fifty Cent Piece - John F. Kennedy
A buck (dollar) - George again.
Two bucks - Jefferson
Three bucks (a phony prank bill) - Bill Clinton
Five - Lincoln (I never noticed before but, we've got a lot of repeats. Where's Taft's bill? or Madison?)
Ten - Alexander Hamilton (who was never a president and, as far as I know only 1 of 2 who weren't who are on bills - Ben Franklin is the other)
Twenty - Andrew Jackson
Fifty - Ulysses S. Grant (the 'S.' stands for 'S' - Simpson's reference.)
Hundred - Ben Franklin (which is why they're called 'Bennies'.
Above that I don't know. Never seen one.
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Post by PoIsOnDaRt on May 10, 2008 7:04:29 GMT -5
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Post by tractakid on May 11, 2008 10:04:15 GMT -5
well, slight problem. Coins: 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, £1, £2. Paper money starts at £5, which taking $1 at 50p, is $10. The other notes are £10, £20 and £50 so you would have to have a £1 coin or spend five times as much for paper. So in the USA there are cents dimes quaters dollars and all that, I know the value of $1 but am copletely clueless on the rest. Could you do me a favour and explain to me what each coin is worth in dollars, and what paper notes you have. Didn't I already do that? Was my explaination not good enough? Can you even read? hehe |
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Post by Kimm on May 11, 2008 16:15:41 GMT -5
Now now. Be nice guys.
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