The Knight Life by Keith Knight for May 03, 2024
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!!
Zesty 7 months ago
It means “Shave and a haircut”.
Bob Blumenfeld 7 months ago
10 – two bits.
(I’m waiting to see who doesn’t get this joke.)
Skeptical Meg 7 months ago
A dollar coin would be split into eighths (“pieces of eight”). Two of them were “two bits”, twenty-five cents.
mokspr Premium Member 7 months ago
Two bits? Wasn’t that Curtis James Jackson’s first rapper name? ( Didn’t test well with the suburban teen demographic. )
FishingWithMissD 7 months ago
This sounds like Bugs Bunny’s villain origin story in “Rebel Rabbit.” (The one where, amongst other deviltry, he saws Florida off from the US.)
GaryCooper 7 months ago
My grandfather used the expressions “2 bits,” “4 bits,” and “6 bits,” for 25 cents, 50 cents, and 75 cents, but the only one I ever hear anymore is “2 bits” for a quarter.