The Knight Life by Keith Knight for October 03, 2012
October 02, 2012
October 04, 2012
Transcript:
KK: I can't believe Kevin Smiths fans have out a 25 cent bounty on my head!! KK: I mean IM nationally syndicated cartoonist!! I can blake or break somebody with the stroke of my pen!! Isn't that worth more than two bits?!! KK: why am I shouting? Its falling on deaf ears anyway!! Gunther: Not really!! someone just tweeted me wondering what "two bits" means!!
Long before television, Wall Street would telegraph its prices per share in 8 bits to the dollar.