Comments on: Germany, 1923

By: Joshua (Site Owner)

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:23:46 +0000

I Love the way you write…thanks for posting

I’m always tempted in “I can haz spam?” situations like this to delete the spammy URL and leave the compliment.

Actually — I think I will do exactly that.

By: Siver

Siver — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:11:33 +0000

I Love the way you write…thanks for posting

By: Joshua (Site Owner)

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:50:22 +0000

Well, yes, that helps quite a bit. Thank you.

By: Alan Eliasen

Alan Eliasen — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:57:23 +0000

“Someone please tell me I made a decimal point error somewhere, or that the people at Historical Currency Conversions are full of it.”

Well, since you asked, I’ll tell you did make an error of sorts. I’m “the people at Historical Currency Conversions”, and if you entered “2 billion 200 million” in the form, it *multiplied* 2 billion *times* 200 million, and then did the conversion. This is because the language is powered by my programming language “Frink” which treats that as an implicit multiplication, like the implicit multiplication if you say “3 dozen” or “4 trillion.”

So, if you had just entered into the form:

132 billion / 60

and converted that from 1921 dollars to current dollars, you’d get the more reasonable 26 billion dollars as a result. The Kaiser still owes me money!

“Now my story begins in 19-dickety-two. We had to say ‘dickety’ cause the Kaiser had stolen our word ‘twenty’. I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles.” — Grandpa Simpson

Hope this helps!

By: Joshua (Site Owner)

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:32:28 +0000

Wow, I really messed up the HTML in that post. Sorry about that.

Should be fixed now.

By: Bob Mike

Bob Mike — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:27:15 +0000

The point, I think, was to utterly destroy the German economy and leave the nation completely destitute. Which, when you look at the next decade or so, is precisely what happened. Apparently, the notion of “hard war, soft peace” hadn’t really taken hold at that point. Oops.

There’s a delicate art to kicking a dog hard enough that it stays down but not so hard that it doesn’t go crazy and maul you. German dogs, it turns out, don’t take well to being kicked.