"(until I'd fed sufficient pound notes through the doors to the PFY)"

Pound notes?

I didn't realise this was set in the 70s.

I was allowed a cattleprod at work. Would certainly liven Friday afternoons up. I'm thinking standing in the stairwell at basement level shocking the handrail which continuous metal all the way to the 8th floor at odd intervals would be fun.

really enjoyed this one lol, reminds me of an incident at work lol

Try Scotland - we still use them here.....

I have to confess to changing passwords at the end of the year & having a moment of (mild) panic when I came back from holiday.. but then remembered the name of the git in personnel that installed 180solutions toolbar on his pc & it all came flooding back!

Thumbs up, cos it's all working (at the moment, anyway!)

Actually pound notes were withdrawn in 1984.

However they still remain in the Channel Islands and Scotland.

I'll resist comments about being unable to pry them from the grip of a Scotsman.

Ooops.

The Royal Bank of Scotland still issues pound notes, though only a small number of them.

Maybe the PFI is going on holiday up north soon and is happy to accept his bribes in small notes?

Must be north of the border.

They still have pound notes in Jersey......

If Mr Travaglia is still in charge of the systems at Waikato University in NZ, he's probably not completely up to speed with the currency in the UK ... although he does have a good grasp of the idea of drinking beer by the pint these days. Lager is consumed by the Litre back home, particularly in the Hillcrest Tavern (conveniently across the road from the Uni).

...at least thats where I met him in the early 90's. Must have only been BOFH in training back then as I don't recall anything untoward happening to my VAX account or any of my many print jobs while I was a student there.

(!)

If you could also resist comments along the lines of "copper wire was invented by two Scotsmen fighting over a penny..."

...In fact, good grief - he's still there after all these years:

http://its.waikato.ac.nz/infrastructure/sad/simon-cont.shtml

(?)

AN OS/2 USER! GET HIM!

£5, £10, £20 & £50 notes are still called "pound notes".. made perfect sense to me. :)

He didn't actually specify one pound notes, just pound notes. So it could be 5, 10, or 20 pound notes etc. It would have been a pretty crap bonus if it was paid in one pound notes..

Yeah, but the Scottish ones aren't real money.

An english pound can be taken to the bank of england and exchanged for one pound sterlings worth of gold.

A scottish pound can be taken to the bank of scotland and exchanged for one english pound.

I thought the Pound Sterling hasn't been gold-convertible for more than thirty years.

versions 3 and 4 were quite wonderful. Working voice recognition out of the box for any app, object oriented icons, sweet!

Whenever I visit friends that have gone shandy drinking (i.e. now live down south) I always take one pound notes with me... It gives me so much pleasure when they try to figure out in shops a/ is it legal (yes) b/ where to put it in the till

I guess it a BOFH kinda thing ;-)

WsEB 4.52 (6times) and still kicking ass, maybe for the sake of the economy i need to upgrade to Vi$ta $erver ??

Now OS/2 is known as eCS, and v2 is due soon.

It's OS/2 Jim, but more than OS/2 as we knew it!

ECS could mean Europeans Converting to Sterling?

Yes, the set in the far corner, thanks

Andy S - ".....i actually keep Scottish notes specifically because they aren't legal tender...."

I think you'll find they are, as they are issued Sterling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknotes_of_the_pound_sterling

However it's amazing how often you can get a fiver's worth of change when paying with a Scottish £1 note.....

added to h4xX0r wordlists worldwide

Maybe that's because those of us who don't (didn't?) get that misconcept remember using pound notes…

.....it's because I'm old enough to remember Pound, Shilling and Pence (and being able to buy a Mars Bar for 10p, *sigh*.......) that I don't know what a PFY or BoFH is?!?

REMEMBER....... Don't assume intelligence....... :-P

You appear to be using Wikipedia as a proof of something. Care to explain your actions?

AAaaaaaahhhhhhh.......... THANK YOU!!!!

I guess that makes me a BoFH PFOAP!!!!!! At last, a peer group I can relate to!!!