james(a)dis-dot-dat.net wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jun, 2006 at 12:39PM -0400, Dave Phillips
spake thus:
james(a)dis-dot-dat.net wrote:
Now, where can I get 1 million pounds for free?
There's about a million pounds of something at the White House in
Washington DC...
Born in the USA,
I was born in the UK, and I think I'm missing the joke.
It's a currency conversion joke (a poor one too). We use dollars for $$$
and pounds as a measure of weight.
Ergo: There's a million pounds of (descriptive noun deleted) on Capitol
Hill.
Ah, for the days before Babel, when all men spoke one language. I think
it was a proto-BASIC...
Best,
dp