[UA] Yo, Brits!

[Edward Parsons]

All I know about Gurnsey is that I order DVD's from their and don't pay tax.
Thats gotta be illeagal, right?


----- Original Message -----
From: "THOMAS MCGRENERY" <114360 at soas.ac.uk>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 9:32 AM
Subject: Re: [UA] Yo, Brits!


>
> <<Any of y'all British people want to tell me about Guernsey?  What's it
> like? >>
>
> Well, it's not where Bergerac was set, so it loses points in my book.
>
> << And what's the pounds to dollars exchange rate like these days?>>
>
> trustnet.com quotes it as $1.46 US to the pound.
> I'm guessing there's quite a few Euros down there now, too. The Euro is
currently worth 90 cents (.9008 of a dollar, to be horribly precise).
>
> <<(If you're wondering, it's for something I'm writing -- a group of Mak
> Attaxers tries to buy a haunted house that's located there.  I'm wondering
> if this would be like American burger flippers trying to buy a house on
> Martha's Vinyard...  The houses listed on the web look pretty expensive.)
> >>
> Guernsey's pretty damn expensive, from what I've heard. Now, Alderney -
there's a Channel Island to crown Channel Islands. Imagine the fun - the Mak
Attaxers have to set up a McDonald's on Alderney for thei own magical
purposes. They then have to stop anyone higher up in the Maccy D's chain of
command from discovering that Alderney has a population of 2147 people. They
are also brought into direct competition with that nice chip shop next to
the harbour shower block.
>
> -- Tom
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