The Digestive System In Reverse

<< Costa Rica: Second in the amusing currency name table to the Vietnamese Dong

I’ve been a busy man for the last few days – if it’s not been computer game Olympics, I’ve had a list of chores that the bloke from the Flash ads would baulk at, or have been having the kind of day that tipped Gordon Gekko over the edge. Incidentally, one of the things I learnt on Sunday was that the aforementioned Gekko is the lead character in Falling Down, rather than a puppet, as I had previously thought. Buzz – the Big Quiz is a fountain of knowledge, for it also offered me the following:

The currency in Costa Rica is the colon.

I didn’t realise that the colon was a Latin American currency – I always thought it was a part of the body, at the business end of the digestive tract. While we’re on digestion, let’s move to…