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    From Peter Moylan@peter@pmoylan.org to alt.usage.english on Mon May 11 14:13:58 2026
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    An e-mail correspondent has just asked me to invest $1.900 000.000
    Billion for her. That's a figure up in the quintillions of dollars. Gone
    are the days when they offered me one million.

    Oh, wait, I see that it's an address in Brazil. Maybe the proposal is
    for a brazillion dollars.
    --
    Peter Moylan peter@pmoylan.org http://www.pmoylan.org
    Newcastle, NSW
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  • From Snidely@snidely.too@gmail.com to alt.usage.english on Mon May 11 01:49:05 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.usage.english

    Peter Moylan blurted out:
    An e-mail correspondent has just asked me to invest $1.900 000.000
    Billion for her. That's a figure up in the quintillions of dollars. Gone
    are the days when they offered me one million.

    Oh, wait, I see that it's an address in Brazil. Maybe the proposal is
    for a brazillion dollars.

    !!!


    -d
    --
    Yes, I have had a cucumber soda. Why do you ask?
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  • From nospam@nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) to alt.usage.english on Mon May 11 20:33:45 2026
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    Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> wrote:

    An e-mail correspondent has just asked me to invest $1.900 000.000
    Billion for her. That's a figure up in the quintillions of dollars. Gone
    are the days when they offered me one million.

    Oh, wait, I see that it's an address in Brazil. Maybe the proposal is
    for a brazillion dollars.

    It turned out at the latest Ig-Nobel ceremony
    that there is also an acute shortage of Zim-Dolars.
    They couldn't afford another thousand trillion of them
    as prizes for the lucky winners,

    Jan
    (give or take a few zeroes)



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