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Originally posted by SuzianneActually I didn't know that.
That would be Alexander Hamilton and Andrew Jackson.
But you knew that.
Who were they, anyway? I've heard the name "Stonewall Jackson" but I don't know who he was or what he did either.
Iggrunnance is bliss.
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Short joke: What's the difference between ignorance and apathy?
I don't know, and I don't care...
Originally posted by c99uxA Bag = £1000 "Bag of Sand" is a Grand.
Or how about a slang term for an amount or a value?
There are some slang terms for amounts of Pounds Sterling:
1,000 pounds = a grand (same as in US slang);
500 = a monkey;
25 = a pony;
Other slang was used for banknotes with certain people on the reverse:
A Florrie (Florence Nightingale used to be on a tenner);
A Duke (The D. of Wellington on a fiver);
I'm sure there are loads more that I've forgotten about...
A Carpet =£3
Double Carpet =£33....Don't ask me where the carpets come from!
Cockle = £10.........Cockle and Hen!.......is 10.
Originally posted by BobskiIt derives from gambling odds 3-1 is a carpet and 33-1 is double carpet.
A Bag = £1000 "Bag of Sand" is a Grand.
A Carpet =£3
Double Carpet =£33....Don't ask me where the carpets come from!
Cockle = £10.........Cockle and Hen!.......is 10.
This derives from criminal slang. A three month stretch in jail is known as
a carpet. Still none the wiser? Neither am. 😕
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Originally posted by jimslyp69yep,
It derives from gambling odds 3-1 is a carpet and 33-1 is double carpet.
This derives from criminal slang. A three month stretch in jail is known as
a carpet. Still none the wiser? Neither am. 😕
carpet-bag = rhyming slang for 'drag' ....there was a 3 month sentence for robbing a drag-cart in the 1800s. [a cart that was dragged around manually in England]
The prisoner was "done for a drag" meant he had robbed one of these wagons and got 3 months for it, which was the going rate for it at the time.