[Noisebridge-discuss] looking for the origin of the dollar

[Ever Falling]

maybe the person was thinking 'another day another dollar'. i'm sure back in
the 1930's-40's that's about as much as you got paid for a days labor.

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Shannon Lee <shannon at scatter.com> wrote:

> D'oh.  This is what i get for scanning my email via iphone while in
> meetings.
>
> --S
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Lee Sonko <lee at lee.org> wrote:
>
>>  Please re-read my post and question.
>>
>> Lee
>>
>>
>>
>>  ------------------------------
>> *From:* noisebridge-discuss-bounces at lists.noisebridge.net [mailto:
>> noisebridge-discuss-bounces at lists.noisebridge.net] *On Behalf Of *Shannon
>> Lee
>> *Sent:* Thursday, March 04, 2010 2:02 PM
>> *To:* Lee Sonko
>> *Cc:* NoiseBridge Discuss
>> *Subject:* Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] looking for the origin of the dollar
>>
>> "Dollar" comes from the dutch "thaler," which was fairly common currency
>> in the new world at the time of the American revolution.
>>
>> --S
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Lee Sonko <lee at lee.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> At a recent 5MoF someone spoke about "community hours", Ithaca Hours and
>>> currency replacements. This might have been Michael Rogers during his
>>> talk
>>> "Corporate Peoplehood - Can a corporation become the embodiment of a
>>> people?"
>>>
>>> I recall at recent 5MoF event someone talking about the origin of the
>>> word
>>> "dollar" and how stemed from the phrase "days of labor". I want to find
>>> this
>>> person and tap them lightly with a truth stick. Does anyone recall this
>>> talk
>>> and presenter?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Shannon Lee
>> (503) 539-3700
>>
>> "Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science."
>>
>>
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> Shannon Lee
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> "Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science."
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