Reality Check by Dave Whamond for April 18, 2021

At this moment’s conversion rate, I come up with a million bucks equaling 722,615.52 British pounds. Which still doesn’t sound like a compliment.

But Franc-ly, I don’t give a dirham.

Whatever she looks like, she will soon be surrounded by a million stars when her shoe hits his face

Just needs a better translator. “You look like a million quid!” Would probably work better…

At the current exchange rate that would be closer to 723,000 quid.

As Ralph said, Blimey!

Well no; in the UK we’d say ‘You look like 71,428 stone’! (1 stone = 14 lbs. Don’t ask me why.)

Bloody fool!

So what DO they say in the UK instead?

This is one of those comics that is spoiled if you think about it too much. At least it doesn’t require knowledge of some obscure fact to understand what the cartoonist meant.

You look like a million dollars! (All green and wrinkled.)

In for a penny, in for a pound.

Compliment vs. getting gobsmacked …!

The next U.K. panel would show her beating the tar out of him!

Lets all vote on the single worldwide system of units and measures, shall we?

I pushed my pram into the lift so I could go to the loo.

“You look like millions of other Euros”

U. K. : you look smashing!

U. S. : are you stoned?

Eh, doesn’t they uses kilogrammes?

Just don’t forget which country you’re in.

Whatever happened to Britain’s psychedelic currency? (Pounds, shillings, pence, or quid, bob and pence?). In other words, L S D.

that’s funny!

He’s a smarmy fellow.

I’d love to tell this joke to my wife, but she’s a bit overweight, and telling her this might send me to the morgue.