--- Tristan McLeay <zsau@...> wrote:
> Does anyone actually commonly
> and-not-self-conciously use eagles?
No. Only coin collectors. We haven't seen eagles
in circulation since 1933 or thereabouts. I doubt
very much they were called "eagles" by most
people even then - too rare and valuable for most
people to have ever seen one!
> OTTH, I'm sure Mr John
> "Let's all go back to the fifties" Howard would
> quite like it.
He's the one that wants to introduce a GST (or at
least wanted to a few years back), yes?
Padraic.
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