#5645364 - 05/02/12 01:06 AM
Re: Little Facts - The world is a weird and wonderful place.
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Buffyfan
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If you were to spell out numbers, you would you have to go until 1,000 until you would find the letter "A". What about "One hundred And one"  I believe it is probably correct to say "one hundred, one". How would you make out a check for $101.00? One hundred, one dollars. Right?
One Hundred One dollArs And no/100------------
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#5645910 - 05/02/12 10:31 AM
Re: Little Facts - The world is a weird and wonderful place.
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Schmakt
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If you were to spell out numbers, you would you have to go until 1,000 until you would find the letter "A". What about "One hundred And one" I believe it is probably correct to say "one hundred, one". How would you make out a check for $101.00? One hundred, one dollars. Right? One Hundred One dollArs And no/100------------
That kind of makes me want to go write a check for something... I always liked extending the last "0" on the "100" so that it filled the rest of the line. I remember my parents telling me to do that so that no one could modify the amount. I still think that's stupid since people would, seemingly, only want to modify whatever the first numbers were... not the change...
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#5645960 - 05/02/12 10:55 AM
Re: Little Facts - The world is a weird and wonderful place.
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chrisco37
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If you were to spell out numbers, you would you have to go until 1,000 until you would find the letter "A". What about "One hundred And one" I believe it is probably correct to say "one hundred, one". How would you make out a check for $101.00? One hundred, one dollars. Right? One Hundred One dollArs And no/100------------ That kind of makes me want to go write a check for something... I always liked extending the last "0" on the "100" so that it filled the rest of the line. I remember my parents telling me to do that so that no one could modify the amount. I still think that's stupid since people would, seemingly, only want to modify whatever the first numbers were... not the change...
I always write them like:
One Hundred One and----------------------------------00/100
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#5645992 - 05/02/12 11:08 AM
Re: Little Facts - The world is a weird and wonderful place.
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bronzilla
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If you were to spell out numbers, you would you have to go until 1,000 until you would find the letter "A". What about "One hundred And one" I believe it is probably correct to say "one hundred, one". How would you make out a check for $101.00? One hundred, one dollars. Right? One Hundred One dollArs And no/100------------ That kind of makes me want to go write a check for something... I always liked extending the last "0" on the "100" so that it filled the rest of the line. I remember my parents telling me to do that so that no one could modify the amount. I still think that's stupid since people would, seemingly, only want to modify whatever the first numbers were... not the change... I always write them like: One Hundred One and----------------------------------00/100
Yep, me too.
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#5646073 - 05/02/12 11:41 AM
Re: Little Facts - The world is a weird and wonderful place.
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He11blazer
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If you were to spell out numbers, you would you have to go until 1,000 until you would find the letter "A". What about "One hundred And one" I believe it is probably correct to say "one hundred, one". How would you make out a check for $101.00? One hundred, one dollars. Right?
According to a quick google, the US style is "one hundred one" and the UK style is "one hundred and one". I know that my son is being taught "one hundred one" at school, so maybe that style is taking over.
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#5646085 - 05/02/12 11:43 AM
Re: Little Facts - The world is a weird and wonderful place.
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TupennyConan
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If you were to spell out numbers, you would you have to go until 1,000 until you would find the letter "A". What about "One hundred And one" I believe it is probably correct to say "one hundred, one". How would you make out a check for $101.00? One hundred, one dollars. Right? According to a quick google, the US style is "one hundred one" and the UK style is "one hundred and one". I know that my son is being taught "one hundred one" at school, so maybe that style is taking over.
Finally, the US takes the lead.
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#5646094 - 05/02/12 11:45 AM
Re: Little Facts - The world is a weird and wonderful place.
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Buffyfan
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If you were to spell out numbers, you would you have to go until 1,000 until you would find the letter "A". What about "One hundred And one" I believe it is probably correct to say "one hundred, one". How would you make out a check for $101.00? One hundred, one dollars. Right? One Hundred One dollArs And no/100------------ That kind of makes me want to go write a check for something... I always liked extending the last "0" on the "100" so that it filled the rest of the line. I remember my parents telling me to do that so that no one could modify the amount. I still think that's stupid since people would, seemingly, only want to modify whatever the first numbers were... not the change...
I haven't written a check in more than 15 years. I don't think I'm alone in that either.
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#5646200 - 05/02/12 12:31 PM
Re: Little Facts - The world is a weird and wonderful place.
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bronzilla
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Wow! My "One hundred And One" post has started all sorts of controversy.
We need a Oatmeal summit to hash this one out.
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Populations suffer from a fear of change, for their conditioning assumes a static identity. Challenging ones belief system usually results in insult and aprehension. Being wrong is eroniously associated with failure, when in fact to be proven wrong should be celebrated, for it elevates us to a new level of understanding. There is no such thing as a smart Human being, for it is merely a matter of time before their ideas are updated, changed or eradicated. This tendency to hold on to a belief system, any belief system and sheltering it from new possibly transforming information, is nothing less than intellectual materialism. Dominant World views operate with the same social irrelevancy, they exist as barriers to social and individual growth. Major institutions exist as barriers to personal and social growth for each group perpetuates a closed world view. Pat Tillman... Remember him please, he deserved so much more. http://www.pattillmanfoundation.org/
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#5646226 - 05/02/12 12:42 PM
Re: Little Facts - The world is a weird and wonderful place.
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goldust40
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If you were to spell out numbers, you would you have to go until 1,000 until you would find the letter "A". What about "One hundred And one" I believe it is probably correct to say "one hundred, one". How would you make out a check for $101.00? One hundred, one dollars. Right? According to a quick google, the US style is "one hundred one" and the UK style is "one hundred and one". I know that my son is being taught "one hundred one" at school, so maybe that style is taking over. Finally, the US takes the lead.
Happened ages ago. Up until the late ' 70s, a billion in England was a million million, not a thousand million as it has always been on your side of the pond. A thousand million used to be known over 'ere as a "Milliard".
Britland changed the value of the billion to the U.S. version, probably as a NATO directive (just speculating on that).
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#5646227 - 05/02/12 12:44 PM
Re: Little Facts - The world is a weird and wonderful place.
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TupennyConan
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As recently as the late '70's y'all had a Milliard & billion was some much larger figure?
Damn. I fear your foreign ways.
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