-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 2:49 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT Spammer Mark Kabore on this list
You have been approved for payment the sum of ?1,000,000:00 (One Million Great British Pounds)
Like everyone else on the list, we could use the $....
"Great British Pound"? I didn't know UK stopped using Pounds Sterling... ;-)
They haven't, but GBP was the recognised way of defining it in telex days :-). Those machines didn't have a '£' sign.
No, I meant somebody actually calling it "Great British Pounds" instead of pounds sterling or quids. It was a referral to the mentioned bad English in the original mail. 8-) In fact the first thing I came to think about was huge like 1m in diameter coins and bed sheet-sized notes. ;-)
Still, it was, and is, a correct phrase :-)
Ok, ok, I give up trying to explain what I meant... I'll shut up now for a while. ;-)