abstract
| - Every decent European company wants money. Consider that a given fact. Any business wanting to pay money to that decent European company wants some sort of reference before doing so. The European company needs to print a nice little piece of paper called an invoice (\ˈin-ˌvȯis\) to satisfy the other business' need for a reference, global warming and the continued destruction of the Brazilian rain forest. Ergo, the European company needs to write the amount of money it wants to get. Considering that the US Dollar is currently bollocks, the British pound is unreasonably heavy, the Russian Ruble sounds funny, the South African Rand is being burned on the streets (under suspicion of black magic), and the Japanese Yen is comparable in value to the Mexican Peso ("peso" is Mexican for "worthless"), there is only one remaining possibility - the Euro. Yes, it's that snobby "I'm from the old world and I've been here forever and I know better than you" approach that captures everyone's imagination. Happily, along with this is the fact that the exchange rate is damn pleasing. So considering all the information we gathered which is
* We want money
* We want Euromoney
* We need to print an invoice to get our well deserved money
* We need to print a piece of paper with a nice, long number that is 6-7 figures long followed by a Euro sign. You can hear the shouts of smug Eurotrash accountants exclaiming "Well, that's easy!" ringing down from their old fashioned office buildings while the chestnut trees are red and autumn-like, the church bells ring throughout the night and loving couples stroll the cobbled streets.........and I lost track of my thoughts. The same way Britain lost the new world to those barbaric natives. Anyway "Well, that's easy!" shout the smug Eurotrash accountants, "We'll just print out a nice big number followed by the Euro sign and we're all going to be rich. Filthy rich. We can all buy nice European-made cars, German washing machines, Swedish dryers and Dutch Stropwafels." We only need to print that nice number and the Euro sign. Yes, a nice fat number and … A Euro sign … Yes … A Euro sign … Alas, if only I could manage to reach the damn thing on my keyboard.
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