BS: Low US dollar, high Canadian dollar...

Subject: RE: BS: Low US dollar, high Canadian dollar...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 06:45 PM

Yes, I think you're right about that, Bee-dub.

Subject: RE: BS: Low US dollar, high Canadian dollar...
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 08:29 PM

The currency lineup today, in comparison to a couple of months ago, shows the pound, euro, $Can and $Aus (and some others) down relative to the $US, and relatively the Yen and Hong Kong dollar up. Bad for Japanese-Hong Kong exporters. The situation usually would be good for those with low currencies, but if everyone cuts their shopping, it ain't no good for nobody.
Didn't check the yuan, but unless people buy, the Chinese producers are hurting too.

Now if OPEC and Venezuela go ahead with cutting production, and petroleum prices rise, that would be good, good, good for Alberta-B. C. - and sales at Bentley Calgary-   
Bentley

Subject: RE: BS: Low US dollar, high Canadian dollar...
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 24 Oct 08 - 02:25 AM

I can remember Paypal transactions in March when $USD100 = $AUD105.

I'm looking at the list of US & Can CDs that I want to buy, & have had on this list for months - since the $AUD was higher!!

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Low US dollar, high Canadian dollar...
From: GUEST,999
Date: 17 Jul 12 - 01:34 PM

10,000.00 Canadian = 9865.92 United States

That's today's figures.

Subject: RE: BS: Low US dollar, high Canadian dollar...
From: pdq
Date: 17 Jul 12 - 01:40 PM

"98.6 and rising down by Boulder Dam that day..."

Subject: RE: BS: Low US dollar, high Canadian dollar...
From: GUEST,999
Date: 17 Jul 12 - 01:45 PM

Good one pdq. Ms Griffith can nail it, huh?

Subject: RE: BS: Low US dollar, high Canadian dollar...
From: pdq
Date: 17 Jul 12 - 02:02 PM

It took a long time to figure out what was wrong with Lightfoot's song "10 Degrees and Getting Colder".

The area where Boulder Dam is located probably hasn't seen 10^o F since the last Ice Age. It is close to Death Valley in climate.

As a Canadian, he thinks in metric and Celsius temperatures.

The aforementioned 10 degrees is Celsius, about 50^o F.

Subject: RE: BS: Low US dollar, high Canadian dollar...
From: GUEST,999
Date: 17 Jul 12 - 02:26 PM

That would be an interesting study, pdq.

Subject: RE: BS: Low US dollar, high Canadian dollar...
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 17 Jul 12 - 07:56 PM

pdq

In April 1975 Fahrenheit temperatures were replaced by Celsius in Canada.

The Album Summer side of life was released in 1971.

He was certainly using the fahrenheit scale.

I got this snippet from a brief Googling.

>>An all-time low of -40 C (-40 F) was recorded January 7, 1971, at Hawley ... south of Hoover Dam and along the Gila River west of its confluence with the Salt River.<<   

Heck maybe Gordo heard that on the news and wrote the song about an exceptional event. Heck maybe he was there. But then it has been called the Hoover dam since 1935 or so. So maybe Gordo was just making up a song with cool ideas and cool words. (Pun intended.)

Subject: RE: BS: Low US dollar, high Canadian dollar...
From: GUEST,999
Date: 17 Jul 12 - 08:26 PM

Jack, the start of that was in '71 or '72. The Yanks were going metric, so Canada changed to metric. We had no idea what it meant. My mother to the day she died thought that Calgary and Edmonton got further apart. Of course, she also thought the sun rose where East is and North was where she was facing. Then, when Canada had all gone metric nutzo, the USA decided they wouldn't. Meanwhile, Canada was up to its arse in metric signs. Lotsa metric signs. So, with no further aplomb, we posted the signs and expected Canadians to find out what they meant. We did. The people who survived have had children who know the difference between KPH and MPH. The difference is .6, sort of.

Subject: RE: BS: Low US dollar, high Canadian dollar...
From: pdq
Date: 17 Jul 12 - 08:29 PM

I must assume you are correct about the Canadian conversion to Celsius, but Hawley Lake is in the White Mountain, far northeastern Arizona. It probably doesn't have many year-round residents as it is between 9000 and 10,000 feet in elevation. Been near it but not to it.

Place like Bullhead City and Boulder Dam are low desert can be 50 degress at night and 80 degrees in the afternoon in February.

BTW, it was always supposed to be called Hoover Dam but FDR showed his subtantial nasty streak and changed it to Boulder Dam to dis his predecessor.

Subject: RE: BS: Low US dollar, high Canadian dollar...
From: GUEST,999
Date: 17 Jul 12 - 08:36 PM

My friend, PDQ, was not addressing me in that last post.

Subject: RE: BS: Low US dollar, high Canadian dollar...
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 17 Jul 12 - 08:51 PM

Since Gordo was singing about a dam that doesn't exist by that name, I'm not about to revoke his poetic license for the rest of the song.

Subject: RE: BS: Low US dollar, high Canadian dollar...
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 17 Jul 12 - 08:53 PM

>>The difference is .6, sort of. <<

The cars here have both one the speedometers. I guess even southern yankees know that much.

Subject: RE: BS: Low US dollar, high Canadian dollar...
From: GUEST,999
Date: 17 Jul 12 - 09:09 PM

Having been in the south I wouldn't rely on that, Jack.