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themadhippy:
when the barmaid your chanting to about the  local area  turns around and says" you must have been at school with my  gran"

Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: themadhippy on June 22, 2021, 11:50:00 am ---when the barmaid your chanting to about the  local area  turns around and says" you must have been at school with my  gran"

--- End quote ---

"I am your grand father"

Cerebus:

--- Quote from: VK3DRB on June 22, 2021, 11:13:06 am ---I have about eight Aboriginal plastic $10 notes from 1988, the first plastic notes ever printed in the world (Australian invention).

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I hate to disabuse you of your national pride, but Haiti circulated plastic bank notes in 1982 printed by the American Bank Note Company. So not an Australian invention; you might have developed a better plastic banknote, but you didn't invent it. The Haitian ones were printed on Tyvek and to all accounts were problematic. The idea of printing on smooth plastic 'paper' wasn't even of itself new, Du Pont sold a printable version of Tyvek in the 1970s. I went to an outdoor festival in the summer of 1978 where the programme had been printed on Tyvek to allow it to survive the outdoor conditions of a British Summer.

VK3DRB:

--- Quote from: Cerebus on June 22, 2021, 01:23:43 pm ---
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on June 22, 2021, 11:13:06 am ---I have about eight Aboriginal plastic $10 notes from 1988, the first plastic notes ever printed in the world (Australian invention).

--- End quote ---

I hate to disabuse you of your national pride, but Haiti circulated plastic bank notes in 1982 printed by the American Bank Note Company. So not an Australian invention; you might have developed a better plastic banknote, but you didn't invent it. The Haitian ones were printed on Tyvek and to all accounts were problematic. The idea of printing on smooth plastic 'paper' wasn't even of itself new, Du Pont sold a printable version of Tyvek in the 1970s. I went to an outdoor festival in the summer of 1978 where the programme had been printed on Tyvek to allow it to survive the outdoor conditions of a British Summer.

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OK, but Australia "perfected" the notes by developing novel technology for printing them. To be honest, the Aboriginal notes were too big for most wallets and were not overly robust. Our banknotes are very robust now. We are the biggest manufacturer of plastic notes on the planet and we export them to many countries. Bank note printing is a dying trade as the notes are generally much less used in Australia these days. Crooks hiding their income from the authorities still use cash. But most people use EFT. In a few years, wallets will disappear as it all moves to the mobile telephone. In a few years, I suspect some stores won't even bother with cash.

You know you are getting old when you are the only person in the checkout line paying in cash.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_banknote#:~:text=banknote%20is%20returned.-,Adoption,coincide%20with%20Australia's%20bicentennial%20year.

RJSV:
...old when you:
   Use the initials P.C.F. when telling a kid you came up in a time, Pre - Cell - Phone days, when there were no cell phone markets.
Oh and I spelled 'Fhone' wrong too, we do that...eh

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