Back to the main page

Mailing List Logs for ShadowRN

Message no. 1
From: Guardian <s777317@*******.GU.EDU.AU>
Subject: Aussie money
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 10:28:48 +1000
> Hey this reminds me of something I have heard.
>
> In some kind of trivia game somewhere was the following question:
>
> Which country has the picture of a convicted counterfeiter(sp) on
> it's money?
>
> The answer was Australia, owning to the fact that it was once a
> British penial colony, and the particular person was sent there for
> counterfeiting, and once there, helped to establish the government
> and became quite a figure in it.
>
> I was wondering as to the truthfulness of this. Can any of the
> Aussies shed any light on it?

New one to me... Bleach or Lady J?

Guardian

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Any sufficiently advanced magic is indestinguishable from technology.
So there."
Adam Treloar aka Guardian
s777317@*****.student.gu.edu.au http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1900/
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message no. 2
From: "MARTIN E. GOTTHARD" <s457033@*******.GU.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: Aussie money
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 13:52:17 +1000
> > The answer was Australia, owning to the fact that it was once a
> > British penial colony, and the particular person was sent there for
> > counterfeiting, and once there, helped to establish the government
> > and became quite a figure in it.
> >
> > I was wondering as to the truthfulness of this. Can any of the
> > Aussies shed any light on it?
>
> New one to me... Bleach or Lady J?
>

ROTFL..... Haven't heard about it personally, but it certainly sounds
like somethig typically Australian

Does anyone have the name of the personage in question.

Bleach

Further Reading

If you enjoyed reading about Aussie money, you may also be interested in:

Disclaimer

These messages were posted a long time ago on a mailing list far, far away. The copyright to their contents probably lies with the original authors of the individual messages, but since they were published in an electronic forum that anyone could subscribe to, and the logs were available to subscribers and most likely non-subscribers as well, it's felt that re-publishing them here is a kind of public service.

Thwap!