Don't forget the egg salad sandwiches that were about 2 inches thick. "Wretched hive of scum and villainy and really great coffee" I hope you don't mind if I steal that line (but you must never have had the horrid coffee in those teapots). Did you know that those marble tables tops were once the urinal dividers…

Of course money is a sham same as the value of gold. You should research the URV and how Brazil stopped its hyperinflation. People who thinks money should be backed by something like gold do not seem to realize that gold's value is a sham also. For one thing there is not enough gold in the world to back the world…

If I remember correctly, in Argentina the workers were paid twice a day so that they could buy food before the prices doubled - but I think that is a sign of hyper inflation.

I have some of the German Weimar Republic bills also. My partner went to Viet Nam last year and brought back some pretty large denomination bills. She and her sister had a great time - Mrs. Grumpy even went down into one of the underground VC hidey holes.

If you have not heard of 'open jaws' flights, check them out. The first time I went to Europe on my own (the first first time was when I was 11 months old - my mom took me and my brother to Paris, I got drunk sitting on her lap, but that is another story), I booked a flight into Paris and out of London. This was way…

Those meanies - about 6:30 "they can access our information but don't allow us to get to theirs" - oh, the horror of unidirectional hacking.

My dad was the executive VP of Plentywood State Bank when they had their 50th anniversary - I got to hold a $10,000 bill.

You know... I would pay a couple bucks for one of them, know where I can buy some?

A friend of mine hired some friends from the local coffee shop (The Last Exit on Brooklyn - lovingly known as the 'xit' - you have to be from Seattle to understand) put in a basement to her house. They lifted it up, dug out the foundation, poured the walls and lowered the house. They forgot to put doorways to the…

When I came back from the Marine Corps, the first women I met lived in the "Barbizon home for girls" - a sort of dormitory for country girls just arriving in the big city (Billings MT pop 80k) - is this the same Barbizon?

Sorry, but I have not yet seen the word 'female' used in any other way than the 3 I pointed out. If you have samples of the word 'female' used in another way, please give me a link. I want to be disproved.

Thank you! that is what I was looking for when I stopped here - I have 'undo last closed tab' in my context menu - but have always wanted to be able to re-open window because, sometimes, they just disappear/go away and I want them back.

When I was moving an old wood "teacher's" desk up into a bedroom and the legs were 2 inches too long for us to get it into the room - no matter how we rotated it. Solution, we marked the 4 front legs with different patterns, drilled 2 holes 4 inches into each leg and then cut 2 inches off the legs. After we got the…

Old bartender trick: pour the alcohol over the ice first then the mixer to prevent foaming; bartenders don't have time for 'pouring slower'

Agreed! We are flying to Argentina this year and have flown to Paris in the past (long, long ago, I flew to Australia) and it would make no sense at all to try for anything less than 2 weeks.

I remember hearing something 40 years ago: the word "female" is only used statistically, scientifically or derogatorily - nothing I have heard since disproves it.

I should sue for whiplash - both my sarcast-o-meter and aghast-o-meter both pegged at the same time.

Yeah, but the EU is actually mandating the chip and pin cards. The last time I was in Paris I had not problem using the ATMs. The 2 types of tech are not interchangeable; a chip and pin machine will not accept the mag-strip cards. With regard to point of sale machines, the merchants will have to have some sort of…

I buy bulk popcorn that can be popped in a paper bag in the microwave and use good olive oil in place of butter to help the salt stick.

This is why Americans will probably not be able to travel the world; the rest of the world is moving to chip-and-pin cards and away from mag-strip card tech. They started in 2005 and call it 'smart card'. Since the American card system is so fraud prone, many merchants will demand to see your passport.