scott wrote:
> If you look on an English bank note, it says "I promise to pay the 
> bearer on demand the sum of xxx pounds".  

American currency used to say essentially that. Then a decade later it 
started saying "XXX oz of gold is on hand". Then it just switched to 
"treat this like money or we'll shoot you."

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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