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Gold/Mining/Energy : ECHARTERS
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To: Brander who wrote (1042)11/5/1997 8:23:00 PM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (3) of 3744
 
I got it!

The poundo roundo.

Smallest unit of currency is one poundo roundo. It is represented by a milled circle of stone 3 feet in diameter and 9 inches thick. In its center is a hole 1 foot in diameter.(For stacking) You have to wheel these poundo roundos to the store to pay for anything. Since they weigh 778 pounds you do not undertake purchases lightly and anyone raising prices on you once you have wheeled a poundo roundo into his establishment and agreed to a contract is risking rough justice. It would cure impulse buying and random shopping about and promote in depth expenditures at fewer merchants. Inflation would be not something anyone would want to contemplate. Can you imagine them saying coffee is now going to cost you two poundo roundos today? Last thing they would ever say.

EC<:-}

And while we are at it. Make credit cards the size of surfboards. You keep them on top of your car, mag strip down. When you go to use them, two men take it and run it along a strip reader on a trolley the length of a building. It produces a paper record 39 inches by 60 feet that is rolled up and must be signed by the auditor generalis de creditus in each town, published in the newspaper beside the court report and then is mailed to your husband for final approval. If this passes committee then the goods are delivered ten days later.

It works in government.

And finally. All goods sold by town merchants would be required to be published with this week's prices in an electronic record on the net. Customers could search the record to find the cheapest goods offered of that category in the area.
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