On Monday, July 20, 2015 at 12:22:31 AM UTC-4, Paul M. Cook wrote:
> "taxed and spent" > wrote in message
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> > "Paul M. Cook" > wrote in message
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> >>
> >> "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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> >>> On 7/19/2015 3:58 PM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
> >>>> "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
> >>>> ...
> >>>>> On 7/18/2015 2:11 PM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> A deli would sell by the piece. They also sell cold cuts by the
> >>>>>> slice.
> >>>>>> You
> >>>>>> probably cost that poor kid her job. Congrats.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> By the slice? Never saw such a thing. You mean like ham is 12 cents a
> >>>>> slice, turkey is 10 cents?
> >>>>
> >>>> Never heard of a of a scale, did you, Einstein?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> You said they sell it by the slice. If they use a scale, they are
> >>> selling it by the pound. Learn the difference before you make snide
> >>> remarks.
> >>
> >> me: I will have 4 slices of the mortadella.
> >>
> >> worker: Slices 4 cuts. Places it on the scale, dials the number for
> >> mortadella. That will be 1.23 cents.
> >>
> >> me: Thank you
> >
> > did you let her keep the rest of the two cents?
>
> 1.23 cents is a perfectly acceptable way to say 1 dollar and 23 cents
> because it is understood we are talking currency. In this case US curency
> and not the pound, yen, baht or dong. Most school children know this.
>
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Anybody notice who's stopped replying to this thread? That's right - Kook has again made such an ass of himself (actually in two ways this time) he had to run and hide.