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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Middy Seafort: [QB] Dear, sirs. [QUOTE]FROM THE TOM: two, the aforementioned description of the British monetary system is so ignorant and out-to-lunch I shall shut up and leave either Lee or Liam to make a cutting remark. [/QUOTE]The Tom, No need for cutting remarks. I admit I am not too familar with the British monetary system. I only know it in a passing, and from what I vaugly remember from both the Holmes and Hornblower stories and Brit TV such as "Are You Being Served?". Thus, I apologize for my inaccuracy in my previous message. I was only trying to relay that my Army friend was merely making a joke about how Naval Ranks and British money could be confusing. The point of the joke is that an Army boy could not distingush between the strip ranks and the rank devices (since the devices mean something else in the Army). It was also a play on how us "ignorant yanks" sometimes only pay attention to our own money systems. He told this little joke to me, a Navy Brat. You could, thus, insert any monetary system or service branch into the line. It could've been told like this: There are two things that don't make sense Air Force Ranks and the Yen. All this controversy over a little joke meant to illicit a simple chuckle-- if I had known, I wouldn't have used it. [QUOTE] From ID Crisis: I think you mean before decimalisation, which was in 1970/71, as we still haven't joined the Euro. The old system was slightly confusing but boiled down to: 1 pound = 20 shillings = 240 pence (so 1 shilling = 12 pence) When we moved to the decimal system the pound stayed the same, but we replaced shillings and old pence with new pence so that 1 pound = 100 pence. And that's the system we use today. A farthing was a quarter of an old penny and was withdrawn from use in 1961. I don't think there was ever a half-farthing. Any other funny terms (such as florin or crown) are just amounts of shillings or pence (2 shillings for the florin, 5 shillings for the crown) and aren't any different to those strange US terms dime and nickel. [/QUOTE]Thank you, ID Crisis. I am now better informed about British currency. Indeed, it was not the Euro I meant-- then again, I've never had a great interest in economy as a study. I'm a journalist, damnit, not a financier. But, as such, I should know better. Once again, thank you for the information and not the "cutting remarks." Out-to-lunch, apparently. Middy Seafort [/QB][/QUOTE]
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