Stupid rant - or is it a GQ?

The BBQ Pit
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Okay, let’s say I want to write down a large sum of money, say ten million dollars. I would write this as

$10 million

What’s WRONG, and stupid, and should be punishable by ten years in a federal prison, would be

$10 million dollars

Stupid, stupid, stupid! Redundant! But now I see people writing it as

$10-million

When did this start? Why the ugly, stupid dash? It looks STUPID to me, and it looks wrong. Or did they change the damned rules? Anyway, I hate it. But tell me if I should write it this way.

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I think you should write it as $1E6.

3

Hmmm…

$10-million dollars!

Why do I get the feeling that Dr. Evil started all of that?? :smiley:

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And made out: Pay to the order of: Nothing But Net!

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I, of course, meant that you should write it as $1E7.

$1E6 is, of course, only $1-million dollars :smiley:

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Obviously the correct form is:

YOU, RickJay , MAY HAVE ALREADY WON $10 MILLION DOLLAR$$$!!! YE$, THAT’$ RIGHT, WE SAID $10,000,000.00!!! WILL BE PAID TO YOU, RickJay !!!

[sub]if your number is randomly drawn from among the pool of numbers which have been assigned to all warm-blooded life forms presently or formerly residents on the Planet Earth. Employees or relatives, friends, neighbors, or love slaves of employees of Publisher’s Clearing House, Microsoft, AOL Time Warner, the National Security Agency, or the Grand Secret Illuminatist Conspiracy not eligible. Void where prohibited. Prohibited where void. Actual access codes to the Swiss Bank Account where the money will be deposited in your name not included. Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball. Say hello to Opal for us. All entrants must pledge fealty to the Lord Satan.[/sub]

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I still don’t think it’s as bad as “going to get money out of the ATM machine.” (Which translates to “automated teller machine machine”.)

AAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!!!

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In that vein:

PIN Number.

Yep. Now you sound really smart.

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Also:

VIN number (vehicle identification)

and

SSN number, which really chaps my ass.

10

Un-thaw some meat for dinner - well, that would be freezing it, now wouldn’t it?

Un-ravelling a sweater - well, that would be knitting it, now wouldn’t it?

Pacific/Specific - news flash! These are two DIFFERENT words with two DIFFERENT meanings. We have a Pacific Ocean. The name of that specific ocean is the Pacific.

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The next person who says RPG game is going to be inefectually flailed at for about forty five seconds, until I have to sit down to catch my breath.

12

What if they’re talking about a game involving rocket-propelled grenades?

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Actually, no, it wouldn’t. (The article addresses both of these. And unravel is a very complex issue.)

14

I’m going nuts with our local “DSW Shoe Warehouse.” I don’t know what exactly DSW stands for, but I’d bet my left tit the “SW” already stands for Shoe Warehouse.

15

Sign me up, coach!

But nobody has answered my question, dammit. Is it

$10 million

or

$10-million
???

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Oh, your question. I’ve never even seen it written with a hyphen before (before this thread, that is). It looks pretty stupid to me.

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I’d bet your other one the D is for “Discount.”

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Hey, just be lucky you don’t have to deal with the TTP at work.

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Also, “the HIV virus.”
smack

Slowly:

Human.
Immuno-deficiency
Virus.

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Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura? I did once pimp a med student for saying the patient had a history of TTP purpura