Not everything we deal with here at COTTonLINE has to be oh, so serious; some things just strike us as whimsical or ironic. This Yahoo News story from The Week is one of the fun items where nobody gets killed or even angry.
It turns out many, many Germans are still using the old deutsche mark, which officially went out of circulation ten years ago. Unlike other countries in the eurozone, Germany never declared a date after which the deutsche mark was defunct. So they circulate, over 13 billion of them.
I'm reminded of the old rallying cry "Hang onto your Confederate money, boys. The South will rise again." Do you suppose somewhere in an old warehouse Fritz is oiling the tracks on a Panzer? Field-stripping a Schmeisser? Dreaming of lebensraum in the east? Nah.
