…today’s exchange rate quotes…3 Facebook hits = 2 Re-Tweets…do I hear any bids on a Goodreads review?…#TBSU…

…with the onset of the economic crisis, the collapse of almost the entire planetary banking system, and the apparent inability of the European Union to feed itself…the world is sliding back toward the old barter system…can’t say it’s such a bad thing really, Mabel…over the past century, various currency crises have come and gone… the Germans, as usual, trumped everybody with the Weimar Republic’s wondrous journey through Costa-Plenty…in 1919 a loaf of bread cost 1 mark…by 1923 , the price had risen slightly to 100 billion marks…the size of the loaf remained the same… the ONLY other arena where such numbers even remotely exist is…where else?…ON THE WEBmillions of people around the world, any many other places, possess a computer of some design…billions of electronic messages pulse daily through the electronic communication ether… and Justin Beiber has twenty-seven trillion twitter followers at the last count…comes now yet another of Master Gallacher’s splendidly insightful  japes on How To Manage The World… we abolish all currencies…the combined Governments globally have all but done that already anyway…and my newly-devised order of exchange reigns…electronic pulse message pricing system…the Facebook International Rates Standard Tariffs (F.I.R.S.T.) …yes , you heard it here F.I.R.S.T.…I’ll take that call now, Mabel, from the Nobel Prize Panel for extraordinary service to SOSYAL NETWURKIN… meantime, anybody wanna swap an Amazon Kindle Review for a coupla Goodreads mentions?…see yeez later…

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6 Responses to …today’s exchange rate quotes…3 Facebook hits = 2 Re-Tweets…do I hear any bids on a Goodreads review?…#TBSU…

  1. I’ll swap some good reviews for more sales?

  2. Reblogged this on authorlisacrowe and commented:
    As always Seumas you make perfect sense. If only the rest of the world could get it together..

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