>>Probably for the same reason that 'money' and 'honey' (as in wife) are so close... <g>
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>Doug;
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>A title of a country and western song of the early 1950's - "If You Got the Money Honey, I got the Time"! (Hank Williams)
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>Tom

No doubt it also inspired the line - "If you're rich, I'm single."