The Game Show Forum
The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: pownster on March 27, 2015, 03:40:40 AM
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We have just witnessed game show history here in Australia with our very first $1,000,000+ game show cash win, claimed by Andrew Skarbek on the Australian devised game-show "Million Dollar Minute" (which has many similiarites in format to the old classic "Sale of the Century"). His total winnings equated to $1,016,000 (all tax-free).
Here is a newspaper article celebrating the win.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/confidential/million-dollar-minute-melbourne-man-wins-biggest-game-show-prize-in-history/story-fnn7ma1h-1227281715120
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Your $100 bills look even more ridiculous than ours do.
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You would have been bowled over at the $1,000 bills that Seven's art department mocked up for the 2013 reboot of "The Mole."
/Protip: Minted money generally doesn't have a TV network's logo on it.
//Are we the last country/group on earth that doesn't differentiate the denominations by color?
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I like that Australian money is made out of polymer though. I wish we did that.
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//Are we the last country/group on earth that doesn't differentiate the denominations by color?
Japan doesn't do the Power Ranger colors on money, either.
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//Are we the last country/group on earth that doesn't differentiate the denominations by color?
Current U.S. bills are different colors, although it's really only an "accent" color, so it's not as obvious as many other countries' bills are.
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With the exception of the idiotic "smallest bill's a $5" thing, Canada does money *far* better than we do.
/fark looneys and twoneys
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With the exception of the idiotic "smallest bill's a $5" thing...
Personally, I would phrase that as "the wonderful 'smallest bill's a $5' thing." (Yes, I've been to several countries where the smallest bill is $5/£5/5€.)
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Having been in Euro and pound countries, I had no problem paying for stuff with coins. I wish I could find the Canadian paper money I have, the one and two have to be twenty-ish years old now.
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Personally, I would phrase that as "the wonderful 'smallest bill's a $5' thing." (Yes, I've been to several countries where the smallest bill is $5/£5/5€.)
You do that. Drives me farking nuts.
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Personally, I would phrase that as "the wonderful 'smallest bill's a $5' thing." (Yes, I've been to several countries where the smallest bill is $5/£5/5€.)
You do that. Drives me farking nuts.
But what if you get two fives instead of a ten?
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But what if you get two fives instead of a ten?
I soil myself, of course.
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Personally, I would phrase that as "the wonderful 'smallest bill's a $5' thing." (Yes, I've been to several countries where the smallest bill is $5/£5/5€.)
You do that. Drives me farking nuts.
Never go to Japan (https://www.boj.or.jp/en/note_tfjgs/note/valid/index.htm/)
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Never go to Japan (https://www.boj.or.jp/en/note_tfjgs/note/valid/index.htm/)
I suggest the effect isn't quite the same when dealing with a radical conversion like yen or pesos or Zimbabwe dollars.
Nice try, though.
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Never go to Japan (https://www.boj.or.jp/en/note_tfjgs/note/valid/index.htm/)
I suggest the effect isn't quite the same when dealing with a radical conversion like yen or pesos or Zimbabwe dollars.
Nice try, though.
The Swiss franc (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_franc) is a better analogue anyway...roughly at par with the US dollar, and their smallest bill is a 10.
/And even a CHF$5 coin still barely covered the cost of a ride on the Zurich streetcar, at least when I was there last year...
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With the exception of the idiotic "smallest bill's a $5" thing, Canada does money *far* better than we do.
/fark looneys and twoneys
I've heard it proposed that the reason $1 coins never caught on in the U.S. is because we never pulled the dollar bill, giving Americans the choice between coins and bills.
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With the exception of the idiotic "smallest bill's a $5" thing, Canada does money *far* better than we do.
Though highly frowned upon by the Bank of Canada, at least you can "Vulcanize" the Canadian $5.00 Bills:
From this:
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5133/5556155406_029c97a9da_o.jpg)
To something like this:
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/03/03/264A402900000578-0-image-m-127_1425418993263.jpg)
...which has been a growing trend since Nimoy's passing.
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I've heard it proposed that the reason $1 coins never caught on in the U.S. is because we never pulled the dollar bill, giving Americans the choice between coins and bills.
Yet the government is stockpiling millions, if not billions of new "presidential" dollar coins (just like how they did the state quarters -- this year they will be up to the LBJ coin). 99% of them will most likely never see the inside of a cash register till, just like most of the other dollar coins and $2.00 bills.
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Personally, I would phrase that as "the wonderful 'smallest bill's a $5' thing." (Yes, I've been to several countries where the smallest bill is $5/£5/5€.)
You do that. Drives me farking nuts.
Change is hard.
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Change is hard.
Touche, sir. Touche. :)
/now get off my lawn