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To: E. Charters who wrote (27836)	12/15/2006 3:51:47 AM
From: marcos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 78419

Our unit of currency is neither the penny nor the nickel, these are merely formerly convenient fractions of our unit, which is the lunit, being valued at precisely one-half the tunit There must be another way to placate those people who resist change to the extent that they expect change to more than one decimal point of the dollar, and still not make the rest of us deal with and pack around those clunky little bits of pricey metal with the miniscule legal tender value ... well how about if the retailer had a large rubber stamp beside the till, and a bucket of ink, and when the customer makes known the desire to receive seventeen ten-thousandths or whatever part of our basic monetary unit which whole and by itself will not buy you a coffee or even a nickel beer, the retailer whips out said stamp and plonks a great block-letter P on the customer's forehead, as the store's IOU for the amount, to be redeemed on the next visit, at which point it can be removed with a belt sander, or in a pinch, Xed out with a ballpoint pen ... the customer might best be led to believe the P stands for Penny, while the retailer can try smiling again on reflection that it means Petty