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Re: Different prejudices and $.02
Marie K Conrad (mkconrad@ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU)
Wed, 24 Apr 1996 08:46:47 -0400
Cents are not legal tender? Odd, I just used one yesterday to pay for
something and it was accepted. And I was planning on putting a bunch of
the worthless little things into rolls and taking them to the bank. They
used to take them before . . . have they stopped? :)
Marie Conrad
On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, Legend wrote:
> I don't know when, but at some point in history "my two bits worth" evolved
> into "my two cents worth" making the "my $.02" a correct statement. Now my
> pet peeve with this is ... cents/pennies are not legal tender and are
> virtually worthless ... my own vanity would like my opinions to be worth
> more than two cents or two bits.
> Well, that's my buck fifty ...
>
> At 07:51 PM 4/24/96 +1100, Iain Walker wrote:
> >On Tue, 23 Apr 1996, Kotliar wrote:
> >>
> >> my $.02
> >>
> >> Jay K.
> >>
> >
> >Assuming (and I _am_ assuming) that the above comment is intended to be the
> >decimal version of "my two bits worth", I just thought that this might be
> >an opportune moment to point out that a "bit" was a 12 and a half cent
> >coin and thus two bits was 25c, not 2c.
> >
> >You didn't really think you could get a shave and a haicut for a mere 2c,
> >did you?
> >
> >Iain Walker
> >
> >Dept. of Anthropology
> >University of Sydney
> >
> >iainw@sue.econ.su.oz.au
> >
> >
>
> respectfully yours, Anthony D
>
> "It was a pretty big year for predators; The marketplace was on a roll
> And the land of opportunity; Spawned a whole new breed of men without souls
> This year, notoriety got all confused with fame; And the devil is downhearted
> Because there's nothing left for him to claim ..."
>
> The Garden of Allah, (c) 1995. Actual Miles Henley's Greatest Hits CD.
> Don Henley, Stan Lynch, John Corey, and Paul Gurian
>
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