Half a Bernie for cyclists

On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 13:49:31 +0000 (UTC), Dennis Davis
wrote:

In article ,
Benjamin wrote:

Subject: Half a Bernie for cyclists

500,000 quid to make more than a hundred miles of roads 20mph so
the little darlings will feel safe:

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....become-7609718

What's a Bernie? What's half a Bernie?

If you're referring to the amount Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone
has just paid to a German court, then please try to keep up at the
back.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/poli...g-scandal.html

Before your time, perhaps?

On 20/08/2014 14:49, Dennis Davis wrote:
In ,
wrote:

Subject: Half a Bernie for cyclists

500,000 quid to make more than a hundred miles of roads 20mph so
the little darlings will feel safe:

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....become-7609718

What's a Bernie? What's half a Bernie?

If you're referring to the amount Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone
has just paid to a German court, then please try to keep up at the
back.

Bernie Ecclestone coughed up 100 million US dollars for the court to
drop bribery charges against him...oh, the irony of this...but of
course this could never be a bribe to drop bribery charges.

The above amount is about 60 million UK pounds. So half a Bernie is
about 30 million UK pounds...you're only out by a factor of 60.

Good 'ole Bernie had an earlier escapade involving the UK government
(Blair, in the days when he thought of himself as a pretty straight sort
of guy) where the br... er... amount... was "only" a piffling million
quid ("donation to the Labour Party").

Divide that by two...

On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 08:42:21 +0100, JNugent wrote:

On 20/08/2014 14:49, Dennis Davis wrote:
In ,
wrote:

Subject: Half a Bernie for cyclists

500,000 quid to make more than a hundred miles of roads 20mph so
the little darlings will feel safe:

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....become-7609718

What's a Bernie? What's half a Bernie?

If you're referring to the amount Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone
has just paid to a German court, then please try to keep up at the
back.
Bernie Ecclestone coughed up 100 million US dollars for the court to
drop bribery charges against him...oh, the irony of this...but of
course this could never be a bribe to drop bribery charges.

The above amount is about 60 million UK pounds. So half a Bernie is
about 30 million UK pounds...you're only out by a factor of 60.

Good 'ole Bernie had an earlier escapade involving the UK government
(Blair, in the days when he thought of himself as a pretty straight sort
of guy) where the br... er... amount... was "only" a piffling million
quid ("donation to the Labour Party").



Not only that, but he does not know what "factor" means.