Oh, parity indeed

[leahbobet]

I finally realized the upside of the dollar being worth $1.10 USD.

All those American friends and acquaintances who made that "oh, so it's five bucks here -- that's like a million bucks Canadian right?" joke? For years? The joke that was never damn well funny and in fact served to piss off every Canadian listening behind their gritted-teeth smiles?

Who's laughing now? *g*

(Your problem-solving hint: it is me.)

Comments

[kats-kradle.livejournal.com]

Actually, I first heard that joke in rapid joke format, from Mark and the others. I wasn't very savvy about the exchange rate when I came up in '02 (a low year apparently) and thought they were equal. I got inundated about the situation very quickly. I believe Mark referred to it as the 'Canadian peso'. I only started making similiar jokes, though to be honest the topic didn't come up very often, when it was clear that it was okay with the people around me.

Mark's comment 'We needed to give you something to joke about, you guys gave us Dubbya, we don't even have to try to make jokes about him'.