Tell us a joke

[zabadak]

Re: Tell us a joke

Used this one in my father of the bride speech, the silence was deafening

It's the way you tell 'em...

[George 1978]

Re: Tell us a joke

I always think that a half crown was to the pound is what a furlong was to a mile, in other words, one eighth.

And a Guinea was a pound and one shilling or (or a pound and 5p)? Was the Guinea a different currency to the pound I wonder? Pound Puppies versus Guinea Pigs?

960 farthings in a pound - a bit like the number of pennies in £10 now.

[zabadak]

Re: Tell us a joke

pre decimal coins were..

halfpenny
penny
threepence
sixpence (tanner)
shilling (a bob)
half a crown
ten bob note
quid note, fiver,tenner, twenty,fifty.

Not sure where a farthing was in this list

Also Farthing (quarter of a penny) and Crown (5 shillings)

[George 1978]

Re: Tell us a joke

Speaking of pre-decimal currency:

What do call a man with a shilling on his head?
Bob.

[George 1978]

Re: Tell us a joke

I don't get it.

A sixpence = 6d
Half a sixpence =3d

http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/economic/currency.htm

Now do you get it?

[Caitlyn]

Re: Tell us a joke

I was just thinking how ironic it would have been if the film Half a Sixpence had been made in 3D.

If you don't get it, you're too young.

I don't get it.

[tex]

Re: Tell us a joke

Correct - even I was born 7 1/2 years after we went decimal, and so to my age group the joke still would have been a bit cryptic.

pre decimal coins were..

halfpenny
penny
threepence
sixpence (tanner)
shilling (a bob)
half a crown
ten bob note
quid note, fiver,tenner, twenty,fifty.

Not sure where a farthing was in this list

[George 1978]

Re: Tell us a joke

Threepence (threepenny bit)

Correct - even I was born 7 1/2 years after we went decimal, and so to my age group the joke still would have been a bit cryptic.

[tex]

Re: Tell us a joke

From the Fringe a coupla years ago...

My wife says I'm unromantic. She asked me what my favourite flower was and I said "Dunno, self-raising?"

Used this one in my father of the bride speech, the silence was deafening

[tex]

Re: Tell us a joke

I was just thinking how ironic it would have been if the film Half a Sixpence had been made in 3D.

If you don't get it, you're too young.

Threepence (threepenny bit)

[zabadak]

Re: Tell us a joke

From the Fringe a coupla years ago...

My wife says I'm unromantic. She asked me what my favourite flower was and I said "Dunno, self-raising?"

[George 1978]

Re: Tell us a joke

I was just thinking how ironic it would have been if the film Half a Sixpence had been made in 3D.

If you don't get it, you're too young.

[George 1978]

Re: Tell us a joke

What do you call a group of people who are celebrating someone about to give birth?

A labour party.

[George 1978]

Re: Tell us a joke

Yeah guilty as charged, not a word i use regularly

Actually, I thought that an elephant with a spellchecker was funny enough to be a joke in itself!

[tex]

Re: Tell us a joke

I would suggest a spellchecker.

Yeah guilty as charged, not a word i use regularly