On 2015-07-20 12:22 AM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
> "taxed and spent" > wrote in message
> ...
>>
>> "Paul M. Cook" > wrote in message
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>>>
>>> "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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>>>> On 7/19/2015 3:58 PM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
>>>>> "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
>>>>> ...
>>>>>> On 7/18/2015 2:11 PM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A deli would sell by the piece. They also sell cold cuts by the
>>>>>>> slice.
>>>>>>> You
>>>>>>> probably cost that poor kid her job. Congrats.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> By the slice? Never saw such a thing. You mean like ham is 12 cents a
>>>>>> slice, turkey is 10 cents?
>>>>>
>>>>> Never heard of a of a scale, did you, Einstein?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You said they sell it by the slice. If they use a scale, they are
>>>> selling it by the pound. Learn the difference before you make snide
>>>> remarks.
>>>
>>> me: I will have 4 slices of the mortadella.
>>>
>>> worker: Slices 4 cuts. Places it on the scale, dials the number for
>>> mortadella. That will be 1.23 cents.
>>>
>>> me: Thank you
>>
>> did you let her keep the rest of the two cents?
>
> 1.23 cents is a perfectly acceptable way to say 1 dollar and 23 cents
> because it is understood we are talking currency. In this case US curency
> and not the pound, yen, baht or dong. Most school children know this.


LOL at the irony of your string of comments on obvious typos. 1.23 cents
is not a perfectly acceptable way to say $1.23. That would be 123
cents. You know what they warn about in glass houses.