# Bakers Dozen

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [August 4, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173 "2010-08-04T17:56:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63728 "2019-01-04T01:11:06Z")

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That’s a nice memory that you share with your sister.  
03 Jan is National Drinking Straw Day, [https://goo.gl/qSs81s](https://goo.gl/qSs81s) – Your Straw Drink Memories, Experiences, and Ideas

1. Brain freeze on a Slurpee as a teenager, back in Connecticut
2. In the late 1980’s, my mom found some old paper straws at my grandma’s house, and I used some of them. They were probably made in the 50s or 60s before plastic straws became popular!
3. Those twisty, curvy straws when I was a kid.
4. I’ve made many “goalposts” for Super Bowl themed cakes using straws with the accordion-like flexible bend

1. Sipping on milkshakes at Steak 'n Shake with my sister, many times right after high school for the only year we were together in school as teenagers (I was a senior, she was a freshman)

1. Those tapioca teas come with large straws, approx 1cm diameter, and when you suck up the tapioca balls they come up like a whomp whomp whomp in your mouth. It’s a strange feeling.

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**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63729 "2019-01-04T02:13:45Z")

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03 Jan is National Drinking Straw Day, [https://goo.gl/qSs81s](https://goo.gl/qSs81s) – Your Straw Drink Memories, Experiences, and Ideas

1. Brain freeze on a Slurpee as a teenager, back in Connecticut
2. In the late 1980’s, my mom found some old paper straws at my grandma’s house, and I used some of them. They were probably made in the 50s or 60s before plastic straws became popular!
3. Those twisty, curvy straws when I was a kid.
4. I’ve made many “goalposts” for Super Bowl themed cakes using straws with the accordion-like flexible bend

1. Sipping on milkshakes at Steak 'n Shake with my sister, many times right after high school for the only year we were together in school as teenagers (I was a senior, she was a freshman)

1. Those tapioca teas come with large straws, approx 1cm diameter, and when you suck up the tapioca balls they come up like a whomp whomp whomp in your mouth. It’s a strange feeling.
2. Twisting a straw up very tight between fingers so someone else can snap it.

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63730 "2019-01-04T02:25:15Z")

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03 Jan is National Drinking Straw Day, [https://goo.gl/qSs81s](https://goo.gl/qSs81s) – Your Straw Drink Memories, Experiences, and Ideas

1. Brain freeze on a Slurpee as a teenager, back in Connecticut
2. In the late 1980’s, my mom found some old paper straws at my grandma’s house, and I used some of them. They were probably made in the 50s or 60s before plastic straws became popular!
3. Those twisty, curvy straws when I was a kid.
4. I’ve made many “goalposts” for Super Bowl themed cakes using straws with the accordion-like flexible bend
5. Sipping on milkshakes at Steak 'n Shake with my sister, many times right after high school for the only year we were together in school as teenagers (I was a senior, she was a freshman)
6. Those tapioca teas come with large straws, approx 1cm diameter, and when you suck up the tapioca balls they come up like a whomp whomp whomp in your mouth. It’s a strange feeling.
7. Twisting a straw up very tight between fingers so someone else can snap it.
8. Carefully unwrapping a plastic straw from its paper so that the paper is very tightly scrunched together, then sucking up a little water with the straw and making a “straw wrapper snake”. I thought that was funny as Hell when I first saw it, and it’s one of those things I thought my parents made up, just for me.

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63731 "2019-01-04T04:26:44Z")

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That straw wrapper snake is cool to se!  
03 Jan is National Drinking Straw Day, [https://goo.gl/qSs81s](https://goo.gl/qSs81s) – Your Straw Drink Memories, Experiences, and Ideas

1. Brain freeze on a Slurpee as a teenager, back in Connecticut
2. In the late 1980’s, my mom found some old paper straws at my grandma’s house, and I used some of them. They were probably made in the 50s or 60s before plastic straws became popular!
3. Those twisty, curvy straws when I was a kid.
4. I’ve made many “goalposts” for Super Bowl themed cakes using straws with the accordion-like flexible bend
5. Sipping on milkshakes at Steak 'n Shake with my sister, many times right after high school for the only year we were together in school as teenagers (I was a senior, she was a freshman)
6. Those tapioca teas come with large straws, approx 1cm diameter, and when you suck up the tapioca balls they come up like a whomp whomp whomp in your mouth. It’s a strange feeling.
7. Twisting a straw up very tight between fingers so someone else can snap it.
8. Carefully unwrapping a plastic straw from its paper so that the paper is very tightly scrunched together, then sucking up a little water with the straw and making a “straw wrapper snake”. I thought that was funny as Hell when I first saw it, and it’s one of those things I thought my parents made up, just for me.
9. A favorite picture of my wife, we’re sipping on a margarita and pina colada in Baja, Mexico. The straws are in their glasses. [In Todos Santos, Baja, across the street from a hotel named Hotel California (but not of Eagles' song fame). - Imgur](https://imgur.com/wCk3Sw9)

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**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63732 "2019-01-04T04:44:27Z")

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03 Jan is National Drinking Straw Day, [https://goo.gl/qSs81s](https://goo.gl/qSs81s) – Your Straw Drink Memories, Experiences, and Ideas

1. Brain freeze on a Slurpee as a teenager, back in Connecticut
2. In the late 1980’s, my mom found some old paper straws at my grandma’s house, and I used some of them. They were probably made in the 50s or 60s before plastic straws became popular!
3. Those twisty, curvy straws when I was a kid.
4. I’ve made many “goalposts” for Super Bowl themed cakes using straws with the accordion-like flexible bend
5. Sipping on milkshakes at Steak 'n Shake with my sister, many times right after high school for the only year we were together in school as teenagers (I was a senior, she was a freshman)
6. Those tapioca teas come with large straws, approx 1cm diameter, and when you suck up the tapioca balls they come up like a whomp whomp whomp in your mouth. It’s a strange feeling.
7. Twisting a straw up very tight between fingers so someone else can snap it.
8. Carefully unwrapping a plastic straw from its paper so that the paper is very tightly scrunched together, then sucking up a little water with the straw and making a “straw wrapper snake”. I thought that was funny as Hell when I first saw it, and it’s one of those things I thought my parents made up, just for me.
9. A favorite picture of my wife, we’re sipping on a margarita and pina colada in Baja, Mexico. The straws are in their glasses. [In Todos Santos, Baja, across the street from a hotel named Hotel California (but not of Eagles' song fame). - Imgur](https://imgur.com/wCk3Sw9)
10. Trying to drink a thick malt out of a paper straw in San Francisco recently, because they’ve outlawed plastic ones. Ugh.

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63733 "2019-01-04T04:52:23Z")

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03 Jan is National Drinking Straw Day, [https://goo.gl/qSs81s](https://goo.gl/qSs81s) – Your Straw Drink Memories, Experiences, and Ideas

1. Brain freeze on a Slurpee as a teenager, back in Connecticut
2. In the late 1980’s, my mom found some old paper straws at my grandma’s house, and I used some of them. They were probably made in the 50s or 60s before plastic straws became popular!
3. Those twisty, curvy straws when I was a kid.
4. I’ve made many “goalposts” for Super Bowl themed cakes using straws with the accordion-like flexible bend
5. Sipping on milkshakes at Steak 'n Shake with my sister, many times right after high school for the only year we were together in school as teenagers (I was a senior, she was a freshman)
6. Those tapioca teas come with large straws, approx 1cm diameter, and when you suck up the tapioca balls they come up like a whomp whomp whomp in your mouth. It’s a strange feeling.
7. Twisting a straw up very tight between fingers so someone else can snap it.
8. Carefully unwrapping a plastic straw from its paper so that the paper is very tightly scrunched together, then sucking up a little water with the straw and making a “straw wrapper snake”. I thought that was funny as Hell when I first saw it, and it’s one of those things I thought my parents made up, just for me.
9. A favorite picture of my wife, we’re sipping on a margarita and pina colada in Baja, Mexico. The straws are in their glasses. [In Todos Santos, Baja, across the street from a hotel named Hotel California (but not of Eagles' song fame). - Imgur](https://imgur.com/wCk3Sw9)
10. Trying to drink a thick malt out of a paper straw in San Francisco recently, because they’ve outlawed plastic ones. Ugh.
11. I found the right straw for my Yeti commuter cup and had to Dremel-drill the sippy lid sothe straw (sturdy, long-lasting) would fit. Now it’s a perfect cup.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63734 "2019-01-04T05:34:38Z")

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03 Jan is National Drinking Straw Day, [https://goo.gl/qSs81s](https://goo.gl/qSs81s) – Your Straw Drink Memories, Experiences, and Ideas

1. Brain freeze on a Slurpee as a teenager, back in Connecticut
2. In the late 1980’s, my mom found some old paper straws at my grandma’s house, and I used some of them. They were probably made in the 50s or 60s before plastic straws became popular!
3. Those twisty, curvy straws when I was a kid.
4. I’ve made many “goalposts” for Super Bowl themed cakes using straws with the accordion-like flexible bend
5. Sipping on milkshakes at Steak 'n Shake with my sister, many times right after high school for the only year we were together in school as teenagers (I was a senior, she was a freshman)
6. Those tapioca teas come with large straws, approx 1cm diameter, and when you suck up the tapioca balls they come up like a whomp whomp whomp in your mouth. It’s a strange feeling.
7. Twisting a straw up very tight between fingers so someone else can snap it.
8. Carefully unwrapping a plastic straw from its paper so that the paper is very tightly scrunched together, then sucking up a little water with the straw and making a “straw wrapper snake”. I thought that was funny as Hell when I first saw it, and it’s one of those things I thought my parents made up, just for me.
9. A favorite picture of my wife, we’re sipping on a margarita and pina colada in Baja, Mexico. The straws are in their glasses. [In Todos Santos, Baja, across the street from a hotel named Hotel California (but not of Eagles' song fame). - Imgur](https://imgur.com/wCk3Sw9)
10. Trying to drink a thick malt out of a paper straw in San Francisco recently, because they’ve outlawed plastic ones. Ugh.
11. I found the right straw for my Yeti commuter cup and had to Dremel-drill the sippy lid sothe straw (sturdy, long-lasting) would fit. Now it’s a perfect cup.
12. Fitting two straws over your two front teeth as a kid so you look like a rabbit with really long plastic teeth

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**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63735 "2019-01-04T06:01:46Z")

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03 Jan is National Drinking Straw Day, [https://goo.gl/qSs81s](https://goo.gl/qSs81s) – Your Straw Drink Memories, Experiences, and Ideas

1. Brain freeze on a Slurpee as a teenager, back in Connecticut
2. In the late 1980’s, my mom found some old paper straws at my grandma’s house, and I used some of them. They were probably made in the 50s or 60s before plastic straws became popular!
3. Those twisty, curvy straws when I was a kid.
4. I’ve made many “goalposts” for Super Bowl themed cakes using straws with the accordion-like flexible bend
5. Sipping on milkshakes at Steak 'n Shake with my sister, many times right after high school for the only year we were together in school as teenagers (I was a senior, she was a freshman)
6. Those tapioca teas come with large straws, approx 1cm diameter, and when you suck up the tapioca balls they come up like a whomp whomp whomp in your mouth. It’s a strange feeling.
7. Twisting a straw up very tight between fingers so someone else can snap it.
8. Carefully unwrapping a plastic straw from its paper so that the paper is very tightly scrunched together, then sucking up a little water with the straw and making a “straw wrapper snake”. I thought that was funny as Hell when I first saw it, and it’s one of those things I thought my parents made up, just for me.
9. A favorite picture of my wife, we’re sipping on a margarita and pina colada in Baja, Mexico. The straws are in their glasses. [In Todos Santos, Baja, across the street from a hotel named Hotel California (but not of Eagles' song fame). - Imgur](https://imgur.com/wCk3Sw9)
10. Trying to drink a thick malt out of a paper straw in San Francisco recently, because they’ve outlawed plastic ones. Ugh.
11. I found the right straw for my Yeti commuter cup and had to Dremel-drill the sippy lid sothe straw (sturdy, long-lasting) would fit. Now it’s a perfect cup.
12. Fitting two straws over your two front teeth as a kid so you look like a rabbit with really long plastic teeth
13. As a little kid, blowing bubbles into the cup with the straw and being fascinated with how it sounded and looked

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63736 "2019-01-04T13:02:33Z")

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The Euro debuted on this day in 1999, so other European currencies

1. British pound

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63737 "2019-01-04T13:20:08Z")

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The Euro debuted on this day in 1999, so other European currencies

1. British pound
2. Italian Lire

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**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63738 "2019-01-04T13:25:06Z")

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The Euro debuted on this day in 1999, so other European currencies

1. British pound
2. Italian Lire
3. Swiss Franc

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63739 "2019-01-04T13:32:00Z")

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The Euro debuted on this day in 1999, so other European currencies

1. British pound
2. Italian Lire
3. Swiss Franc
4. Swedish Krone

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**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63740 "2019-01-04T13:44:19Z")

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The Euro debuted on this day in 1999, so other European currencies

1. British pound
2. Italian Lire
3. Swiss Franc
4. Swedish Krone
5. Turkish Lira

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63741 "2019-01-04T13:53:20Z")

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The Euro debuted on this day in 1999, so other European currencies

1. British pound
2. Italian Lire
3. Swiss Franc
4. Swedish Krone
5. Turkish Lira
6. German Deutschmark

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**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63742 "2019-01-04T13:53:22Z")

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The Euro debuted on this day in 1999, so other European currencies

1. British pound
2. Italian Lire
3. Swiss Franc
4. Swedish Krone
5. Turkish Lira
6. German Deutschmark
7. Spanish Peseta

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63743 "2019-01-04T14:01:18Z")

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The Euro debuted on this day in 1999, so other European currencies

1. British pound
2. Italian Lire
3. Swiss Franc
4. Swedish Krone
5. Turkish Lira
6. German Deutschmark
7. Spanish Peseta
8. Norwegian Krone

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**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63744 "2019-01-04T14:32:30Z")

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he Euro debuted on this day in 1999, so other European currencies

1. British pound
2. Italian Lire
3. Swiss Franc
4. Swedish Krone
5. Turkish Lira
6. German Deutschmark
7. Spanish Peseta
8. Norwegian Krone
9. French franc

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**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63745 "2019-01-04T15:03:08Z")

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The Euro debuted on this day in 1999, so other European currencies

1. British pound
2. Italian Lire
3. Swiss Franc
4. Swedish Krone
5. Turkish Lira
6. German Deutschmark
7. Spanish Peseta
8. Norwegian Krone
9. French franc
10. Albanian Lek

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**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63746 "2019-01-04T15:46:10Z")

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The Euro debuted on this day in 1999, so other European currencies

1. British pound
2. Italian Lire
3. Swiss Franc
4. Swedish Krone
5. Turkish Lira
6. German Deutschmark
7. Spanish Peseta
8. Norwegian Krone
9. French franc
10. Albanian Lek
11. Dutch Guilder

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**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63747 "2019-01-04T16:23:15Z")

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The Euro debuted on this day in 1999, so other European currencies

1. British pound
2. Italian Lire
3. Swiss Franc
4. Swedish Krone
5. Turkish Lira
6. German Deutschmark
7. Spanish Peseta
8. Norwegian Krone
9. French franc
10. Albanian Lek
11. Dutch Guilder
12. Portuguese escudo

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