To: Red Badger
Checks are really just substitutes for paper money that is a substitute for precious metals... Not our money. Our money is "Fiat" money. I understand that "Fiat" money generally means "It's money because the government says so," but the fact that the term is synonymous with an Italian-made car that doesn't look very good or work very well is enormously appropriate.
Coincidence? I think not!
16 posted on
12/16/2010 1:50:31 PM PST by
Oberon
(Big Brutha Be Watchin'.)
To: Oberon
I owned a Fiat X1/9...............beautiful car........fun to drive............when it ran..............
20 posted on
12/16/2010 2:02:45 PM PST by
Red Badger
(Whenever these vermin call you an “idiot”, you can be sure that you are doing to something right.)
To: Oberon
"Fix It Again, Timmy." (Somewhat dated now.)
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