Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:37:17 GMT From: "Al" <alistairdorenospamo.com> Subject: Re: owners manual
"MH" <nomailnospamere.no> wrote in message news:d1fqpu$q71$1nospam2.zwoll1.ov.home.nl... >> > what's a quid? >> same as a bob. > > make that 12 bob > > -- > MH > '72 97 '77 96 '78 95 '79 96 > '91 900i 16 > http://go.to/saab96 > Actually a quid is a pound sterling, no unfortunately we don't have Euros yet as we are beset with little Englanders still patriotically chanting "two world wars and one world cup" Generalising here, these people are usually fat skinheads with huge beer-bellies, living in Essex council houses, (believe our US friends would call that a project?) and driving a leaky old ford XR3. Fred a pound sterling is now 20 bob, a bob is a slang term for a shilling which was 12 pence, but at decimalisation became 5 new pence. Since there are now 100 "new"(since decimalisation in 1971) pence to a pound, (or quid) that makes 20 bob. Actually there were always 20 bob or shillings to the pound, but pre decimalisation a pound was therefore worth 240 pence. Don't even get me started on monkeys and ponies...... Luv-a-duck! Al
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