Dollar continues slide

[enid602]

Down another half cent since yesterday. According to oanda.com:





Wednesday, January 3, 2007

1 US Dollar = 0.75472 Euro

1 Euro (EUR) = 1.32499 US Dollar (USD)

Interbank rate +/- 0%

This means:
You buy 1 US Dollar : 0.75472 Euro
You sell 1 US Dollar : 0.75453 Euro
You buy 1 Euro : 1.32499 US Dollar
You sell 1 Euro : 1.32533 US Dollar

Median price = 0.75453 / 0.75472 (bid/ask)
Minimum price = 0.75204 / 0.75212
Maximum price = 0.75775 / 0.75832

[Sugar Smack]

1. This is outrageously off-topic, I know, but

what in the world do those lyrics mean from that Donna Sommer song in your sigline? I've been trying for thiry-odd years to figure that out. ;-)

[SpiralHawk]

2. MacArthur Park is melting in the dark

of course.

P.S. Thanks a pantload, Commander AWOL Bush for causing the trashing the US dollar -- another massive screw up, like everything you touch.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. It's from 'MacArthur's Park" and I always thought it was describing a lost

relationship. By the way, it was written by Richard Harris, who recorded the original in 1968.

Edited: Richard Harris, not Rex

[murray hill farm]

6. it means that

in space and time, a situation only occurs once...as in the start and continuation of a relationship. If you leave that cake (or relationship) out in the rain, it can be ruined..and although you may make or bake..ha..another cake (or relationship), you cannot ever have that cake or relationship again. The ingredients (in time and space) that allowed for the first one will never be again.

[Sugar Smack]

8. *sigh of relief* Thank you. I feel released

now that I'm able to pick up on it after so many years. Thanks, y'all, for your help!!!!!

:D

[enid602]

12. park

McArthur Park is the major park in downtown LA, and is symbolic of the city's shabbiness and funkiness.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. I think by the time I have to leave for Ireland, the dollars in my retirement will be worth about

half a Euro.

[murray hill farm]

9. I just returned from Ireland early in Dec...

at that time, it was about $1.40 to buy 1 euro...and almost $2 to exchange for 1 pound.

[sinkingfeeling]

11. I intend to move to Donegal in 2010...retirement. Been to Ireland several times

and love it.

[The Anti-Neo Con]

5. I read in our local newspaper about a boom in tourism from Europe.

A lot of Europeans are traveling here to the US because, well, it's pretty darn cheap (for them)!

[napi21]

7. Ohhh, my son is going to be going nuts AGAIN!

He works in Sicily for an American Company, is paid in USDbutall his expenses are in Euros. It's been very roughthe last several years!

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. It will continue to be so

for teh foreseable future