Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 05, 2021

“Show them no quarter!”

Quit while you’re still out of detention, Caufield!

I think you can safely assume that he did not.

Nothing said about a wooden nickel?

So … does this make any cents?

“In 1522, Sir Thomas More wrote (in ‘Four Last Things’): ‘It often happeth, that the very face sheweth the mind walking a pilgrimage, in such wise that.other folk sodainly say to them a peny for your thought.’”

Caulfield is a panic. Just my two penn’orth.

Those two! Love their banter!

Day late and a dollar short.

“Penny for your thoughts” is a much older expression. The “two cents” came much later; and Inflation was responsible for the difference … not the importance.

In any event, the penny was the value placed on another’s thought; and the 2 cents was a self evaluation … expected difference.

As long as he gets a nickle back. On replay.

“Dropping a dime” must sound really weird to young people, since there are no pay phones, and they stopped being a dime about 50 years ago.

Used to be a nickel, then a dime, then a quarter, then…poof! "Where did all the pay phones go, long time passin’….?

I wonder if a character like Caulfield hasn’t read stuff already before it will be assigned in class. It’s what I did when I anticipated that some piece of literature will maybe come up.

It’s a great way to be bored to death in class.

The unsolicited opinion is actually only worth half a penny (0.5 cent)

Not certain if I give two-bits regarding this discussion…

That should be “two-bit diversion…”

This young buck has met his match.

In for a penny, in for a pound, I always say. But then, I’ve always been penny wise and pound foolish. (And isn’t it fun that we still have a sense of what these relative quantities mean, lo, this quarter millennium after we gave up pounds in favor of dollars? Cubits for two bits, anyone?)

~ So here’s penny for your thoughts / a nickel for a kiss /A dime if you tell me that you love me ~ Tavares

What you’re saying is that time is more valuable than thoughts, as in: “A penny for your thoughts” as opposed to “a dime for your time.”

“I speak my mind more than most of the time/Two cents ain’t such a bad fee/Let me be/Why can’t you see?/If everybody gets an opinion then we’ll never agree” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN2GSStnWF8

Reminds me of the joke about a guy taking his lady to her first football game and her wondering why the coaches and fans were obsessed with a small amount of money as “they’re always yelling, ‘Get the quarterback’.”

Dollars to doughnuts she’s right.

(I stopped at a Dunkin’ the other month and noticed that a single doughnut now costs about a dollar. There goes another colorful expression…)

If I want your opinion I’ll pay. Speak unbidden & you pay double. Sounds oppressive.

Oooh! Upping the ante! Nicely done!

If you do a lot of research, you will be putting out a lot of pennies to gather other people’s thoughts. Then you combine them into one single conclusion, and it is only worth 2 cents? Better hope someone else is funding this research.

What a two-bit approach.

Caulfield has it wrong. The two cents is for an opinion you neither asked for nor wanted.

dont take any…

A penny for your thoughts, but put your 2 cents in? Somebody’s making a penny. (Thanks Steve).

A man called a woman a "two-bit whore”:she hit him with a sack of quarters.

Caulfield, ever the ecCENTric.

A Groat’s Worth of Wit, to be sure.But if I had a nickel for every time…Well, Mrs. Olsen is not one to grant quarter.

if i had a nickel for every time i heard that

“Whowuddnknown?”