My 2 cents !

[Daft_Ghosty]

Quote:

Originally posted by Steve R Jones

Can anyone see the two pennies? I can't. Wish I knew why.

Yeah its on a Geocites acct.. geocities about a year ago maybe a little less started blocking leeching of their servers.. so unless you are on a web page on geocities.. u can not see images... in other words.. no direct links to images.. only if inside geocities servers..


That's my 2 dollars (I'm thinking that is 2 cents with inflation)

[Daft_Ghosty]

*bows* you are most welcome Steve

-Sean

[Graham]

Surreal,
As Jonty said, we have it here too, my twopenneth, we also have the expression "for two pence (sometimes pins) I'd ............."

I wonder where it roots are?

G

[Daft_Ghosty]

humm I remember the old song "Shave and a hair cut 2 bits.."

[surreal]

G, Well, I think you guys were speaking English before us

Steve R Jones, so nice to see ya! I've missed you, look at my post count! I've been posting for both of us! You might want to try this site.. www.freeservers.com I link to them no problem.

and don't be a stanger, find time for us

[Daft_Ghosty]

took some searching but I seemed to have found some of the history behind the expression "My two cents"

From what I have read it comes some think from playing poker.. but the expression predates cents.. and goes back to bits ..

http://www.money.org/mtquarter.html

2 bits (spanish silver.. which was the predominant coin in America two hundred plus years ago) was equivalent to America's new quarter coming out at the time.. so actualy when we say two cents we are wrong.. considering the og expression.. but two cents seems to sound so much better..

I'll provide the link below where I got the info from.. I only could find it on a cached page throuhg google.. the message board it was on deleted the thread..

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:Wj0gNCRcd9Q: pub55.ezboard.com/fwordoriginsorgfrm1.showMessage%3FtopicID%3D498.to pic+expression+My+Two+bits&hl=en

well the link is messed up b/c there is a : and p together.. I'll put a space between them.. and if ppl want to copy and paste it into a browser and remove the space they can..

[sharder8]

Two bits,

Four bits,

Six bits,

A dollar,

All for Techimo, stand up and HOLL'ER!!

2 bits = quarter

Harder

(Rework of the cheer surreal used in High School!! )

[Daft_Ghosty]

lol

[KenKun]

Oh .. thatx a bunch all ..
I never heard it or read but here in TechIMO... and i'm not native so you have to excuse me

Regards

[the jester]

Hey KenKun

No need to excuse yourself, there are people posting from all over the world in here.

Even some of us "natives" get it wrong from time to time, like when we've had too many beers, or we have people from different English speaking countries

But the answers to your thread show what a cool place it is when so many people try to help you out

It wasn't tech specific but you learnt something, we probably all did with some of the historical background to the expression

Just my 2 yen's worth

I see your in Tokyo - do you get down to Akihabara much?