[SOC] Duh, I pressed the wrong button didn't I?.

Mon, 12 Aug 2002 23:55:09 +0100

Doh, Chris!

You forgot the pony, the monkey and the florin.

P#529;-)

p.s. Chris, I've consumed significant quantities of beer in Tadley
but I can't remember for the life of me what the name of the pub
was (North West of the main housing estate opposite AWRE and
out on the Greenham Common road).

P ;-)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Redding" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 10:41 PM
Subject: Re: [SOC] Duh, I pressed the wrong button didn't I?.

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jan <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 7:10 PM
> Subject: [SOC] Bombs Awaaaaaaayyy
>
>
> Bush keeps coming to town to promote the career of some braindead
> > Republican in our newly gerrymandered congressional district). I think
> they
> > were off to bomb some trailer park or something else no one would miss
> (oops, sorry Chris)
>
> [I'll put you down as a democrat then, Jan].
>
> > but oddly, it seems that Americans are the final (and fanatical) users
of
> > the "English" system of weights and measures (but thankfully not their
> late,
> > unlamented monetary system!), and I can't find my calculator. 73 Jan
KF0Z
> #389
> >
> [Brits buy in metric, but (apart from the young) think in Imperial]
> [Look Jan, it was simple:
>
> Four farthings = one penny
> Two hape'neys = one penny also
> Three pennies = one thep'ny bit
> six pennies (or two threp'ny bits) = one tanner
> two tanners = one bob
> twelve pennies = one bob
> four threp'ny bits = one bob
> One tanner and two threp'ny bits = one bob
> two bob = two bob
> a two bob bit and a tanner (or two threp'ny bits) = half a crown
> two half crowns = five bob
> five bob = one dollar (UK)
> four half crowns = ten bob
> two ten bobs, or eight half crowns, or ten two-bob bits = twenty bob, or
> even 240 pennies = one
> quid
> one quid and one bob (or two tanners) = one guinea
> 20 quid = one score
> 100 quid = one ton
> 1000 quid = a grand
>
> How could we have made it any simpler for you?.
>
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