Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley for October 07, 2014

Bucky thats a little over 4 dollars american close to 5.

Now we’ll see how good Bucky is at shilling. (Get it? Get it? shill: to lure a person into a swindle.)

Truer words were never spoken, Mac.

During my world traveling days with the Navy, British money was the hardest to convert in your head. Pounds, shillings, and pence contributed to cerebral overload. We were always shocked by how much money we spent when we converted the “funny-money” back into US dollars.

Mac makes his own milkshakes? Cor blimey!

Shouldn’t Mac call paper money ‘notes’ instead of ‘bills?’ And the smallest pound note is the fiver, so three pounds would have to be coins.

Mac went from being tan to orange.

He has a little less than $8 if I remember the exchange rate right

Eight pounds of $1 bills would be (1 gram per bill – no matter the denomination) 454 (grams / pound) X 8 = $3,632.00 – ’course they could be $20s – or $100s, or…

Back in the day, when 1Pound was worth about $2.40 (Canadian), conversion was easy. There were 240d (the old symbol for Pence was a “d”) to the Pound so 1d was worth 1 cent; a penny was a penny. Woe betide you if – as sometimes happened – you got a shilling in your change though. The shilling was about the size of a quarter but worth half as much. It sometimes happened in Canada since both countries have the Queen on the coins.

Still happens with other currencies too. A couple of years ago I ended up with an Australian 10 cent piece in my change. It’s the same size of a quarter and has a slightly different portrait of Queen Elizabeth on it. If you just accept it by size and don’t look too carefully at the portrait or the word “Australia” on the heads side you can be fooled. That’s one reason why I’ve kept it.

You’re letting him off easy, masterskrain — you mean “Four quid, three bob tuppence ’apney!”