Auctioneer: Now, who will open the bidding for me at ten thousand pounds?
Texan Millionaire: Fifty thousand dollars.
Auctioneer: I am bid... seventeen thousand, eight hundred and fifty-seven pounds, two shillings and ten pence. I think it would be easier, sir, if we were to conduct the bidding in pounds sterling.


--Noel Howlett (as Auctioneer) in Father Brown