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Re:Why Is the Dollar Sign a Letter S? by grkvlt on Sunday February 08, 2015 @07:41PM (#9019219)
I think your friend was actually trying to tell you about this story [1] not something that actually happened to them.

[1] http://verizonmath.blogspot.co.uk/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-kno...

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Re:Why Is the Dollar Sign a Letter S? by ScottBurson on Sunday February 08, 2015 @07:51PM (#9019250)
Possibly. As I recall, he was pretty upset about it, which seems to suggest it happened to him -- but it was a long time ago, and we all know memory is a funny thing.
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Re:Why Is the Dollar Sign a Letter S? by jbuzbee on Sunday February 08, 2015 @08:53PM (#9019395)
"we all know memory is a funny thing." - Yeah, tell that to Brian Williams - rim-shot :-)
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Re:Why Is the Dollar Sign a Letter S? by StavrosK on Monday February 09, 2015 @08:28AM (#9021008)
The exact same thing happened to me, in Greece. There are more than one person who have been affected by this :P People are just bad at math.
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Re:Why Is the Dollar Sign a Letter S? by whichfawkes on Sunday February 08, 2015 @07:46PM (#9019232)
Maybe his acquaintance has a blog?
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