On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 20:43:40 +0000, Andy Dingley
wrote:

On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 23:48:45 -0500, "Eric Tonks"
wrote:

I have heard of some unscrupulous Canadian travelers actually paying hotel
or restaurant bills in foreign countries with the CTC money.

When i was a young fellow in the navy in the mid sixties some of the
guys passed off Cdn tire money in some of the caribbean islands. This
was really an unfriendly and unneccesary thing to do as our money at
that time was about twice the value. it was also very dangerous to
ones career. I didn't have any Cdn tire money myself as i was only 18
and probably hadn't even been in their store yet. There were many more
places i found more interesting than the Cdn t\Tire stores in Halifax.
Ken


You might just about pass some of them off on a drunken Burns Night,
except that the mis-spelling of "tyre" makes them obvious fakes.