Re: n. stiff, the antonym?

On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:05:06 GMT the Omrud <usenet.omrud@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

} Seán O'Leathlóbhair <jwlawler@xxxxxxxxx> had it:
}
}> One thing that I miss about the old system is the variety of coins.
}> When I was a child, you could find several different kings and queens
}> on the coins and some surprisingly old coins were still in circulation.
}> These days, nothing older than 1971 is in circulation and they all
}> have the same queen on them.
}
} As a child, we played a game while waiting for something. Each
} person would select a coin from his pocket and show the front to the
} others - they then had to guess the date on the back. This way, we
} learned the dates of Kings and Queens from Victoria onwards at the
} least. Pennies with Victoria on the front were commonplace in the
} 60s.

As a child, I played a game while waiting with adults. I would predict
that I could guess the date of their dollar bill and have them so stunned
by the suggestion that they would agree to give me the dollar if I guessed
right. The date was 1935 (I could be wrong about that, because some time
has passed since then and I haven't tried it lately). They were all
series 1935, differing only by the letter after it. Ivy Baker Priest's
signature was on them; the date changed when the Treasurer changed.

ObOldJoke: A mother called aside a child who had been playing "Which Coin
Do You Want" with an uncle and said, "Elwood, why do you keep taking the
nickel? You know the dime is worth twice as much," to which the child
replied, "Yeah [= TCE "Right"], but then he'd stop playing."

--
rjv
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