Now you can spend your quids in space

[Fat Tone]

Some think this is new: http://www2.le.ac.uk/ebulletin/news/...-08.6116622425

but we've been spending quids in britain for decades

[Brian Ellis]

Makes me want to cry when I see public down-to-earth quids wasted by universities

[Fat Tone]

Would you be saying that if you were 60 years younger?

Personally I don't believe that ecommerce is a no-go in the space era, but they do have a point that space-based trade isn't out of the question for our younger, richer, generations, and it will surely become ever more accessible as time passes. Someone has to think about these things at some point.

And, I reckon these are going to be hugely collectable in the short term if actually made widely available (the profits from which may well more than offset that initial spending and hopefully make my Uni richer). Franklin Mint had better watch out

[Brian Ellis]

If I were 60 years younger, with modern education, I wouldn't even be able to spell polytetrafluoroethylene, let alone know that its characteristics are such as to render it unsuitable for what is described.

When I was 60 years younger, one of my classmates had the horrible habit of chewing tobacco, strictly forbidden in school, of course. One day, he was surreptitiously indulging in his pêché mignon in a Latin class, when the teacher espied his masticatory movements. He marched up to the boy, pointed to his mouth and asked, menacingly, "Quid est? (What is it?)"

The lad immediately replied, without turning a hair, "Est quid! (It is a quid!)". Class dissolves in laughter and teacher hastily leaves the room to recompose himself.

[Dr Mordrid]

What's wrong with gold-pressed latinum?

[Fat Tone]

Rule of acquisition #101: Don't create a currency with Insufficient profit for the manufacturers.

[Jon P. Inghram]

What's wrong with gold-pressed latinum?

Well, Latinum doesn't exist AFAIK, so that's problem #1.

[Dr Mordrid]

Well, Latinum doesn't exist AFAIK, so that's problem #1.

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