And for conversion to decimal, a shilling is 20 pence.
Aaah! My brain!
t explodes
Wash: Don't fall asleep now. Sleepiness is weakness of character. Ask anyone. You're acting captain. Know what happens you fall asleep now? Zoe: Jayne slits my throat, and takes over. Wash: That's right. Zoe: And we can't stop it.
'Shindig'
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Betsy HP - Jul 09, 2003 6:22:15 am PDT #5561 of 9843
If I only had a brain...
amych - Jul 09, 2003 6:23:16 am PDT #5562 of 9843
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Any kind soul care to explicate?
It had something to do with Plantagenet Palliser....
Jim - Jul 09, 2003 6:25:18 am PDT #5563 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Things I'm glad I was too young to have to deal with - I only know the shillings thing because they were still in circulation when i was a kid. Actually, I'm wrong - 1 shilling=5 new pence
amych - Jul 09, 2003 6:25:49 am PDT #5564 of 9843
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I thought that a shilling was 5p for purposes of decimal conversion? So still 20 shillings to the pound?
Jim - Jul 09, 2003 6:27:19 am PDT #5565 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
See my post, amych. I was talking rubbish, mislead because (deep breath) they changed the size of the 5p in the mid-80s, and brought out the 20p. So the 20p is now the size of the old 5p, which was interchangeable with the Shilling.
amych - Jul 09, 2003 6:28:30 am PDT #5566 of 9843
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I think we x-posted, Jim. No worries.
Betsy HP - Jul 09, 2003 6:29:47 am PDT #5567 of 9843
If I only had a brain...
I remember how much it confused me when I was reading E. Nesbit. And some time in my childhood I ordered a wooden doll from Pollack's and did my best to convert U.S. dollars to L.s.D and got it all wrong.
Nilly - Jul 09, 2003 6:30:51 am PDT #5568 of 9843
Swouncing
A pound was twenty shillings (a guinea twenty-one)
That was the one that always confused me the most, especially when reading Edith Nesbit, because until I finally could come around to a guinea having pretty much the same value of a pound, it didn't.
[Edit: E. Nesbit x-post with Betsy, at least I was in good company]
Angus G - Jul 09, 2003 6:31:17 am PDT #5569 of 9843
Roguish Laird
And in Australia, when we decimalised our old pound turned into two dollars, so for us 1 shilling = 10 cents.
Jim - Jul 09, 2003 6:31:24 am PDT #5570 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Props for mentioning E Nesbit. My favourite author as a child (along with Ransome).