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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Dear valued client
Dear valued client:
Thank you for your recent letter advising me that henceforth you would pay all invoices in US Dollars instead of Canadian Dollars.
This brings back happy memories of 1974, although I wouldn’t dwell on it: as Richard Nixon remarked a few months before resigning, “One year of Watergate is enough.” Hank Aaron broke The Babe’s home run record, India joined the Nuclear Weapons club, and Ali’s rope-a-dope secured him the win in the “Rumble in the Jungle.”
And oh yes, the US Dollar was lower than the Canadian Dollar. Well, as long as we’re going in that direction, please adjust your invoice spreadsheet to pay me $77.1 an hour for 850 hours a year. I’m sure you agree that’s only $65,535, so think of the savings!
Yours very truly,
raganwald
Dear valued client:
Thank you for your recent letter advising me that henceforth you would pay all invoices in US Dollars instead of Canadian Dollars.
This brings back happy memories of 1974, although I wouldn’t dwell on it: as Richard Nixon remarked a few months before resigning, “One year of Watergate is enough.” Hank Aaron broke The Babe’s home run record, India joined the Nuclear Weapons club, and Ali’s rope-a-dope secured him the win in the “Rumble in the Jungle.”
And oh yes, the US Dollar was lower than the Canadian Dollar. Well, as long as we’re going in that direction, please adjust your invoice spreadsheet to pay me $77.1 an hour for 850 hours a year. I’m sure you agree that’s only $65,535, so think of the savings!
Yours very truly,
raganwald
