Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 13:31:36 EDT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: H Re: Was Getting screened / Currency of the realm
In a message dated 5/25/2000 10:45:44 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 17:44:05 +0100
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: H Re: Getting a new libretto screen.
>
>
> > a = millions of quids
> > b = three shillings and fourpence
>
> Now THAT's gonna confuse our left-of-atlantic friends.
>
> You might as well have said:
> "Half a crown, and three farthings"
>
> Talking of which:- Someone settle an argument, please
>
> What is a penny in US currency?
>
> Rob
>
100th of a dollar, US$0.01, one cent, copper, (except 1943 when made of zinc)
good for making up tax on purchases only. When but a child it purchased five
pieces of taffy wrapped in wax paper at the corner store. Now seen on the
ground at various places and only picked up by small children if their mother
is not looking (Don't touch that, you don't know where is has been, it may
have germs on it, I just got you clean, stay that way, here let me clean that
smug off you face, Mom spits into her hankie and performs the deed, Gads, how
did I survive?) "Ah, yes my dear, anyone who hates kids and dogs can't be all
bad." In my best W. C. Fields.
Quid: now about US1.50, was US$5.00 when I learned conversions.
Shillings:?
Fourpence:?
Half a crown:?
farthings:?
For Rob:
US, 2 bits:?
4 bits:?
6 bits:?
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