I was watching Wooster and the fag valet and something else English in the Tenent of Wild something, and I asked TL what these British currencies were as they always got these quid, bob and things and I have no idea what that all means, except you could get sex in Africa for two bob.
A Shilling is 1/20th of a Pound
A Guinea is a gold coin worth 21 Shillings
A Pound is worth a pound of sterling
A Quid is worth 100 Pence
A Pence is 1/100th of a Pound
A Bob is a Shilling
If I get this, a Pence is a Penny, and 100 Pennies equals 1 Pound or 1 Dollar. A Shilling is 5 cents short of a Quarter and 5 Shillings get you 1 Pound, just like 5 Bob get you 1 Pound.
and 2 Bob or 40 cents gets you one black Africa whore.
Just thinking if you had a 1000 dollar New York whore, that would be like a 5000 Bob whore. That sort of sounds more affluent for some reason.
Oh yeah the Guinea is like 2 Dollars and 20 cents, but then the Pound was worth a great deal more than the Dollar.
I still am not impressed with even this information nor do I want to invest the grey matter in figuring this out in reading Thomas Paine in costs like 2 L 3 p, which is like 2 pounds and 3 pence, which was probably like over 20 dollars back in the day.
You might like to know though if watching Masterpiece Theater or something or reading African hunting books.......you need to know about cordite though and nitro express and sundowners, but that is about gunpowder and alcohol.
I think that 40 cents for a black whore is more than I would care to pay. Like a Schilling for a shot of rum. See in America they had two bits for a whore, which I think is 25 cents. The British were overcharged in if they had just had a quarter they would have made 15 cents on every prositute purchase. This is probably why America rose to such power in the world, as Brits f*cked their fortunes away in paying more for a whore than they were worth.
The quarter probably saved America in having more coins in forcing down whore prices.
Somehow a four thousand bit whore in New York just does not sound desireable. It probably saved Americans only having quarters in Africa as I am sure the black whores did not have change of 10 Pence for 50 cents.
Do not suppose there were any slots to put quarters in for candy bars or sodas either in Africa.
I wonder if I could teach an economics course in Chicago over this.
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