Apparently pennies were once worth enough that people actually counterfeited them. Hence, a “bad penny” was a worthless counterfeit that you needed to get rid of hopefully by spending it at a shop with an inattentive clerk. Lew would have been old enough to have remembered pennies having actual value.
Averagemoe over 7 years ago
Maybe the ambassador is the direct result of someone’s butt mutating. Surely, he came from a city with many more of his kind.
Neo Stryder over 7 years ago
Lew, let Millie deal with the penny.
Darwinskeeper over 7 years ago
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/212498/old-timers-referring-to-a-bad-penny
Darwinskeeper over 7 years ago
Apparently pennies were once worth enough that people actually counterfeited them. Hence, a “bad penny” was a worthless counterfeit that you needed to get rid of hopefully by spending it at a shop with an inattentive clerk. Lew would have been old enough to have remembered pennies having actual value.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 7 years ago
Millicent doesn’t understand metaphor yet.
Stephen Gilberg over 7 years ago
…And that’s where fox tails came from.