Comments on: Native Cubans Valued Shoelace Tags More Than Gold.

By: s'rah

s'rah — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 16:16:28 +0000

College and University and two different things in the UK, so no, to answer the question.

By: jesse

jesse — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 03:32:28 +0000

I totally agree with the cubans on this one, gold-smold but shoelaces…where would you be without them?

By: Aleki

Aleki — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 01:03:23 +0000

Gold’s hardly useless. It’s virtually indestructible, it is a soft metal, easy to work with, shape, flatten or draw out into microscopic strands. Besides jewelry it’s used in telecomunications, computers, semiconductors, powered wheelchairs, spacecraft, telephones, wall jacks, tv’s, vcr’s, medicine, dentistry, eye surgery, lasers…..etc. etc.

not to mention toilets and rocking horses

By: Denita TwoDragons

Denita TwoDragons — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:29:58 +0000

Ya think about it, only a “civilized” country would hold one of the most useless metals in such high esteem! *LOL*

–TwoDragons

By: tom

tom — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:40:07 +0000

The correct term for those thingys that keep your shoelace from turning into poodle-tails is “aglet. As in “your aglets are awry.” That’s a classy way to tell someone their shoelaces are untied. Right before you give them a blistering uppercut to the jaw.

By: Reed

Reed — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:57:04 +0000

It makes sense. Gold is not useful for many practical purposes (outside of electronics, etc.) while small brass tubes could be either useful, or impressive at how they were worked into tubes (vs. lumps of raw gold).

By: Julian

Julian — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:08:10 +0000

If you think that is redundant, check out the University of Maryland University College!