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Help: Irish 10P

15 Jan 02 - 12:14 AM (#628142)
Subject: Irish 10P
From: Haruo

Yesterday, in Seattle, Washington, I received an Irish 10P piece in change, presumably mistaken for an American nickel (5ยข coin).

Now that there's no such thing as Irish money anymore, what should I do with it?

Liland


15 Jan 02 - 12:16 AM (#628143)
Subject: RE: Help: Irish 10P
From: alison

keep it as a souvenir?....... its not worth much anyway

slainte

alison


15 Jan 02 - 12:34 AM (#628158)
Subject: RE: Help: Irish 10P
From: catspaw49

Hire a private eye and track down the SOB who gave it to you. Wait until dark and then enter their home and take them hostage until your nickel is returned. If they no longer know the whereabouts of your nickel, castrate all males in the family and send their balls to anyone who they say might have your nickel. Follow up on each of these and perform the same on any who cannot produce your nickel. When the police catch up with you, say that you are doing this because the voices in your head keep repeating the same phrase over and over......."Calcified toad bones are tee-pee windows".......while a vision of your great aunt Lucy strips down to her g-string.

Spaw


15 Jan 02 - 01:19 AM (#628173)
Subject: RE: Help: Irish 10P
From: Haruo

Thanks, Spaw, but somehow I just can't bring myself to picture Lucy in that sort of deshabille.

Liland


15 Jan 02 - 03:35 AM (#628204)
Subject: RE: Help: Irish 10P
From: Seamus Kennedy

Go to Kells Pub, on Post Alley I believe, order a pint of Murphy's Stout, pay for it with American money, and slip the 10p in with the change that you leave as a tip!

Seamus


15 Jan 02 - 05:51 AM (#628240)
Subject: RE: Help: Irish 10P
From: GUEST,Paddy Plastique (sans Cookie)

Use it as a spurious excuse to travel to the Auld Sod where the Central Bank
on Dame St., Dublin 2, will change it for ya into the princely sum of 8 (euro) cents.
No date limit on that either. If you're going to take up Catspaw's option, on the
other hand, I reckon it was highly-placed executives in the 2 biggest Irish banks
that done it. That planted the damn thing in that till. Do everything advised 'cept
sing 'em 'Pretty Boy Floyd' backwards as ye're doing it...


15 Jan 02 - 07:35 AM (#628263)
Subject: RE: Help: Irish 10P
From: Bo Vandenberg

Help Charlie Loose that Damn 10P!

Will it ever be gone, no it'll never be gone 'Caues its Money you can't burn! It will float forever through the streets of Washington Its the coin that never will burn!

Apologies to the MTA


15 Jan 02 - 08:40 AM (#628278)
Subject: RE: Help: Irish 10P
From: Grab

I was going to suggest using it if you go to Britain, cos British and Irish coins used to be the same size and weight, just with different piccies on them. But Britain went to using smaller silver coins (5p, 10p, 50p) a few years back and I think the Irish kept the larger ones, so you wouldn't get away with it.

Graham.