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buddy_ruckus

Making it rain like a fucking monsoon...

Feb 03, 2009 16:13

I made a cash withdraw today from an ATM in Laos, and I was a millionaire. I had 1,000,000 kip in my hand. Just for a frame of reference, 8,500 kip is a dollar, but fuck you anyway, I was stoked to have a million whatevers in my hand ( Read more... )

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chief_brown February 3 2009, 19:49:35 UTC

ughhhhhh you're killing me. how long are you there for again?

buddy_ruckus February 4 2009, 10:27:38 UTC

I'm in Laos for another week or so, then Vietnam, then Cambodia, then back in to Thailand. I'll be home in April, which seems like a long ways away, but time is either flying or standing still... I can't tell.

blkseamonkey February 3 2009, 22:26:58 UTC

Kip is the Dutch word for chicken. Its funny to think youre paying for things in chicken....and a lot of chicken at that.

buddy_ruckus February 4 2009, 10:28:44 UTC

Thousands of chickens a day. It sucks having to carry around so many chickens with you. It's like two truck loads of chickens for a smoothie...

blkseamonkey February 5 2009, 07:39:57 UTC

You think the upkeep alone would make the kip obsolete...but you got to give it to Loas for really standing behind their choice of a monetary unit.

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buddy_ruckus February 4 2009, 10:29:18 UTC

VETO! I'm not even sure what one of those is...