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Posted by Blinky the Shark on 01/13/06 06:18
dorayme wrote:
> In article
> <pan.2006.01.13.03.53.16.709330@thurston.blinkynet.net>,
> Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote:
>
>> >> > > Small business: $65,000
>> >> > > Medium-sized business: $~250,000
>> >> > > Large business: $~500,000
>> >> > >
>> >> > > All figures were averages. Any more recent figures?
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Thx!
>> >> >
>> >> > And how is "small business" to be defined and in which country, or
>> >> > set of countries?
>> >
>> >> Convert US dollars to dorayme!
>> >
>> > huh?
>> >
>> >> That may be a US euphemism, though.
>> >
>> > huh?
>> >
>> >> And our spelling is different.
>> >
>> > huh?
>> >
>> >> Google for 'Woody Guthrie doremi' :-)
>> >
>> > and huh again?
>>
>> Summary: do-re-mi (with *some* kind of spelling) is slang for "money",
>> albeit that might be spelled dough-re-mi since it's related to the
>> shorter slang "dough" for "money". I don't know how long "bread" for
>> "money" has been around, but IIRC it got popular/mainstream in the late
>> 1960s; I think it may have been an outgrowth of "dough", which has been
>> around for a long time.
>
> Maybe I should not try to get to the bottom of this. I know bread and
> dough mean money... All is too cryptic... I was sort of interested in the
> idea of the figure for website spending and there are not too many "small
> businesses" I know that spend anything like these amounts... I know that
> sb takes in a wide net.... Anyway, it looks as if I am not going to get
> answers from whoever gave these figure...
>
> Bottom line: I will hold off for the moment sending my clients notices
> accusing them of cheapskating...
Probably a drive-by. And someone's software (or some newbie) is stripping
attributions.
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