>-----Original Message----- >From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of >Anne Wilson >Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 11:16 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT Spammer Mark Kabore on this list > >On Friday 05 September 2008 09:45:32 Sorin at Gmail wrote: >> Lanny Marcus <> scribbled on Friday, September 05, 2008 12:18 AM: >> >> 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. ;-) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5118 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080905/2b46c3b7/attachment-0004.bin>