[blam]

"And thus became the origin of the expression "Get nailed". "

I read that Captain Cook had difficulty keeping his ships together in the Hawaian Islands because the crew kept trading nails for sexual favors from the native females.

[BenLurkin]

IIRC he had to send out shore parties to retrieve the nails. That must have led to some resentment.

On a silly note . . . I wonder ... if there really were visitors from other solar systems ... and if they were at all like us . . .

. . .what would they trade to us -- and what would they want in exchange?

[muawiyah]

Yes, in those days there was a limited supply of one commodity and an infinite supply of the other.

Misjudging the value based solely on the quantity is always an error.