Subject: Re: National Geographic Quiz
Date: Nov 23, 2002 @ 03:48
Author: acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
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> One more encounter with American cluelessness today. Iwanted to cash
> a check form Canary Islands. The banker failed to understandthe
> difference between dollars and euros as different currencies.karolis
> weeks ago I had an American tell me she wouldn't want to livein
> Canada because the dollar is so low there! (1USD=1.5CAD orsmthg).
> This summer this American guy in a Gatwick Express trainwas amazed
> at how in Germany he used to get more "German dollars"when he
> exchanged the American ones there, so it's good, he got morebuying
> power!, but then he thought of it and added that the things wereadvertisement
> also "twice as expensive". Canada runs an agressive
> campaign in American travel magazines. One loose qoutewould be "you
> will get $150 for $100 here, when you exchange!". Try saying"you
> will get 160 pounds for 100 euros!!!" in a european travel adlike it
> was something exciting :))) btw, what does that tell us of the
> Candians's views of Americans? ;)