Hi, Paul Quinn!   
   I read your message from  07.10.2014 15:00   
   about Some fun.   
      
    PQ> (We might say here that there are "5 banknotes of 1 thousand   
    PQ> roubles each".)   
      
   Also "1 banknot of 5000 roubles"?   
      
    ak>> BTW, 1000 roubles is about 30$ - do you call it small change, too?   
    PQ> That would be a small treasure for me. :) However, I lead a   
    PQ> somewhat 'sheltered life' with small wants. I think I have $6 and   
    PQ> ninety-five cents in my wallet; five cents short of $7. For any   
    PQ> shop purchases, I generally 'swipe' my credit card over a reader on   
    PQ> the counter for either petrol or tobacco; no PIN or receipt   
    PQ> required. I use very little cash these days.   
      
   Yes, now this things are in Russia, too. Although, IMHO, when people pay with   
   card it takes more time, and they create cues. ;-) Well, maybe our shops have   
   slow Internet?   
      
    ak>> When a human sees a grizzly bear he usually runs away and climbs   
    ak>> up the tree, hoping to escape. That's why grizzlies think that   
    ak>> humans live in the trees like birds. Probably grizzly are too   
    ak>> heavy to climb up the trees themselves.   
      
    PQ> Probably, yes. Too much trouble. So, you've never heard of Daniel   
    PQ> Boone (the American frontiersman)? Apparently, he was able to   
    PQ> stare-down a grizzly; that is, he would stand erect and just stare   
    PQ> a bear in eye. Yeah, it was most likely a fable. :)   
      
   In Russia we also like this type of stories. In one of them, a hunter went to   
   hunt a bear and didn't take a gun. When a bear rushed on him he grasped the   
   bears' front paws and kept them until the bear died. ;-)   
      
   Bye, Paul!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   ENGLISH_TUTOR 2014   
      
   --- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox   
    * Origin: Quinn's Post - Maryborough, Queensland, OZ (3:640/384)