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Thursday, 3 November 2016

The good ol’ days

The good ol’ days when the rate was USD 4.00 to the EGP 1: You heard, right folks. We take you down a gilded era of colorless entertainment where the EGP 1 was said to be worth USD 4 (runtime: 0:44). Although trouble seemed to have hit paradise, as the rate depreciated slightly in this next clip, which puts the EGP 1 at USD 2.50 (runtime: 0:07) — the horror.

And while we are upset at resurrecting the media-dead Tawfik Okasha, we did manage to find a clip of him being surprisingly prescient, predicting an exchange rate of EGP 18.00 to the USD 1 back when it was EGP 9.00 (runtime: 1:35). His prediction of the apocalypse happening on the 13th day of the 13th month (yup) of 2013 notwithstanding.

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