Wow, ruthless!
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Aside that you seems to mix again italian and Turkish Lira (in late 2001, a single US dollar was ~ 2100 lire, not 467,289.72), you should keep in mind that monopoly was designed in 1932 and introduced in 1935, when a dollar was, if I’m correct, still 26 grams of 90% silver, so I’m uncertain about the implied thousands in 1930s US…
(indeed, from 1980s to the end, in Italy was usual to imply thousands in dealing, e.g. we sayed, ex. “dodici e cinquecento” (“twelve and five hundred”) for 12,500 lire)
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
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Note taken, and corrected. I used to watch a comedy show that would give box office receipts in a low-fi recording of an Italian female speaker, and part of the comedy was how many millions of “lira/lire” that flop movies were making if you did a currency translation. Not being familiar that Turkey uses a similar name for currency, I assumed all lira/e were Italian. My bad.
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Ahahaha, I was saying “What, you use Michigan as your refrigerator?” to myself, 100% joking and thinking about my experiences growing up in northern Illinois, and then I saw the images and cackled. What an amazing time to be unexpectedly right, lol.
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Okay, so this happened before I went to college, and my family apparently stopped before I came back, and I don’t remember the actual dates (not medicated back then), but apparently my family couldn’t decide which Christmas to celebrate…?
Because my mom is Dutch, her family only here for a few generations, and my dad is…a lot of things, so for simplicity: American, lol.
And apparently my mom’s side of the family has a different date and celebration for Christmas from my dad’s side of the family, so my childhood household took mom’s tradition and called it “St. Nick’s Day”, and did the stocking stuffers then, and then the rest of the holiday resumed during Christmas.
I remember hearing that most people do all of this on the same day and being so confused.
Also, yeah, the idea was that “St. Nick” was supposed to be a different person from “Santa Claus”.
And somehow all of these deviations survived public school, considering how much I yammered as a kid.
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