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TheMightyGusset
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Posted: Sun Mar 23rd, 2008 05:11 pm |
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850norton wrote:
Bring back the 10 bob bit, or at least the terms so they don't die out.
That would be a 50p coin.
10 Bob being 10/- (Shillings)
There was a 10 Bob Note though.
Brown it was.
Although in fact, the 50p coin was introduced in 1969, two years before we actually went decimal, so that we could get used to the idea, so I suppose it might have been a '10 bob bit' !
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Posted: Sun Mar 23rd, 2008 09:21 pm |
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850norton wrote:
Oh, nearly forgot....the British penny and the American penny were the same size, so we couldn't use our penny for legal tender on US bases. As they were the same size, the US penny could be used in the public loos and the government would get "cheated" out of revenues. So if we wanted to spend a penny, we had to do it the right way and use the coin of the realm.
I thought the yank penny was a llittle thing? I still have pennies and things.
The other day, while looking thru some old mail I found the leaflet they gave out in 1970 about the new money..
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Posted: Sun Mar 23rd, 2008 11:15 pm |
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Gus, had a semi-senior moment there. Forgot that the 10 bob bit and the 50p piece were the same thing. Don't get much call to refer to them here as I'd get even more vacant looks than usual.
The pennies were the same size so they weren't llowed to be used at all.
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Posted: Sun Mar 23rd, 2008 11:29 pm |
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and then theres 'thrupenny bits'.. 
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Posted: Mon Mar 24th, 2008 12:11 am |
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| Not to forget the ha'penny or the tuppence ha'penny (tanner). Wait, that was mentioned earlier I think.
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Posted: Mon Mar 24th, 2008 12:20 am |
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You are all starting to sound like that old batt on 'Corrie! (I only know this 'cos Mrs. Jessplop insists on watching the bollox whenever it's on).
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Posted: Mon Mar 24th, 2008 12:30 am |
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Think your getting confused, tuppence happeny isn't a coin.
6 pennies was a coin, funnily enough called a sixpence:-)
two and a half np is a sixpence.
Maybe thats why you thought a penny is the size of a cent, a penny is a similar size to a two shilling piece[florin, 10np] a cent is more like the size of a 1np or maybe a farthing. I still have examples of most of the coins. I don't think I have a silver threppeny bit[round not polygon]. I do have some crowns. But no Guinea coins.
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Posted: Mon Mar 24th, 2008 02:34 am |
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6d or sixpence, that's it.
Still pretty certain that the two pennies were the same size......unless......the 1/2p and our penny were the same size. As I don't have them to compare, it's really hard to say. But I know that we couldn't have/use our pennies due to the size and similarity to a British coin.
I'll get to see them all again in about five weeks.
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Posted: Tue Mar 25th, 2008 07:47 am |
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One of the wonderful things about old money is rhyming slang, it worked so well, like:
Gowaaaaan show us yer thruppneys.
Or simple expressions regarding lack of morals
Bent as a nine bob note.
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Posted: Thu Jun 19th, 2008 01:42 am |
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What about the good old groat... a fourpenny piece and the crown... a five bob bit. I was at early grammar school during decimalisation... we had to learn both imperial and metric and that was a bummer!
So how do you lot feel about perches, rods, poles, chains and bushells and the like?
I love the imperial systems and I must admit to having a split mentality... I must just have been a child of the time..... I had to have my twopeneth.
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Posted: Thu Jun 19th, 2008 03:06 am |
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It just sounds more impressive for marketings sake to say we will sell you a 500 or a 650 instead of a 30.50 or 40.
Follow the money.
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Posted: Thu Jun 19th, 2008 07:04 am |
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Frankfurt-Beesa wrote: One of the wonderful things about old money is rhyming slang, it worked so well, like:
Gowaaaaan show us yer thruppneys.
Or simple expressions regarding lack of morals
Bent as a nine bob note.
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Posted: Thu Jun 19th, 2008 09:17 am |
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Frankfurt-Beesa wrote: One of the wonderful things about old money is rhyming slang, it worked so well, like:
Gowaaaaan show us yer thruppneys.
How is that rhyming slang ?
Thruppenny Bits ?
Norks ?
That don't rhyme ?
Bazookas ?
Nope, still don't work
Hooters ?
Fun Bags ?
I give up !
Last edited on Thu Jun 19th, 2008 09:17 am by TheMightyGusset
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Posted: Sat Jun 21st, 2008 07:32 am |
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Here is my personal favorite in the metric/standard equation. When our pistons wear out, we buy an 86mm "plus 40 thou", as in 0.040 INCHES!!! Boggles the mind, but it's standard practice here. A subject of much campfire talk at rallies. We all know what the metric measurements mean, and can sort it out after a moment. We like the standard though, as it is indeed more human-centric - a foot is measured thus for a reason! A yard is the length of a stride. Etc.
[and enough of the xenophobic crap, fellas...]
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Posted: Sat Jun 21st, 2008 11:11 am |
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Xenophobic Crap ?
There's no Xenophobia on this forum matey !
In fact we are quite fond of Johnny Foreigner and his funny ways !
We even quite like you Merkins !
If you don't want us to poke fun at you though - stop voting F*ckwits in as POTUS !
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Posted: Sat Jun 21st, 2008 05:15 pm |
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| Merkin... an interesting word. Isn't a merkin a pubic wig???
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Posted: Sat Jun 21st, 2008 06:36 pm |
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Fast Frank wrote: Merkin... an interesting word. Isn't a merkin a pubic wig???
Merkin World Says :
A pubic wig or merkin as it was earlier known made its debut in 1450.
It was used as a device to cover syphilitic pustules and gonorrheal warts in the genital area.
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Posted: Sat Jun 21st, 2008 06:48 pm |
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| As I suspected.... a good all round insult if ever there was one
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Posted: Sat Jun 21st, 2008 07:50 pm |
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Merkin World Also Says :
The merkin of the past were made to cover the "filthy running sores of syphilis.
A disease which “eroded the palate...
In some cases the lips, nose or eyes were eaten away, or on others the whole of the sexual organs”.
George W Bush Says:
I am a Merkin, I am proud to be a Merkin
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Posted: Sun Jun 22nd, 2008 12:35 am |
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| You crease me Gus.. you really do.. PMSL
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