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One bad thing about pennies—one sentence

Managing the span of years of the Lincoln cent.

Let ‘em loose.

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    FrazFraz ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MWallace said:
    People call them "pennies",,,,,, they are "Cents".

    Worse, IOS corrects to Penny’s.

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    CRHer700CRHer700 ✭✭✭✭✭

    They are partly responsible for our $0.99 items, and sales tax, as the penny tax was the first sales tax.

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    FrazFraz ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MWallace said:
    People call them "pennies",,,,,, they are "Cents".

    Thanks, that calls a title edit.

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    JBKJBK ✭✭✭✭✭

    Zinc rot.

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    FrazFraz ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JBK said:
    Zinc rot.

    We need a verb.

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    alaura22alaura22 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @retirednow said:
    They once were critical if you did not have a replacement fuse.

    Or a pack of cigs with the foil...............

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    FrazFraz ✭✭✭✭✭

    @retirednow said:
    They once were critical if you did not have a replacement fuse.

    Critically responsible for panel box mayhem.

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    No drinking games.

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    They don't make your bathroom floor any less tacky.

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    People leave them on the ground.

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    Illegal to melt them.

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    FrazFraz ✭✭✭✭✭

    When you drop a nice one it rolls away forever.

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    EstilEstil ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Goldbully said:
    I'm waiting for this cent lady to chime in.


    I didn't know they did cosplay at coin shows!

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    EstilEstil ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BLUEJAYWAY said:
    Illegal to melt them.

    Only if you get caught.

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    Carbon spots.

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    MWallaceMWallace ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 5, 2024 7:40AM

    @Fraz said:

    @MWallace said:
    People call them "pennies",,,,,, they are "Cents".

    Thanks, that calls a title edit.

    It was meant in reference to your title. I swear. It's just always been a pet peeve of mine.

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    TypekatTypekat ✭✭✭✭✭

    It costs more than a cent to make them!

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    Some day they will be disconnected and end an annual series that has run from 1793 to date, excluding the 1815.

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    rec78rec78 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 5, 2024 2:25PM

    @dcarr said:
    The first pennies were made of solid gold; then they were made of silver; then large copper with a silver plug; then large copper without silver plug; then small copper; and now they are junk metal with copper coating.

    I see a trend here.

    Imflation

    @MWallace said:
    People call them "pennies",,,,,, they are "Cents".

    True but after so many years "pennies" has become part of the nomenclature., so it is OK to call a cent a penny.

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    no auto correct here, ¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢

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    .... ✭✭✭✭

    My loafers would look naked without them! 😂

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    SaorAlbaSaorAlba ✭✭✭✭✭

    Here is an authentic American penny - not a cent!

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    JimTylerJimTyler ✭✭✭✭✭

    They ain’t dollars.

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    FrazFraz ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JimTyler said:
    They ain’t gold dollars.

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    mr1931Smr1931S ✭✭✭✭✭

    Go to the bank for pennies. Go to the zoo for cents.

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    JWPJWP ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 6, 2024 6:54AM


    knock knock. Penny Penny

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    Some of the early ones are expensive in red BU.

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    FrazFraz ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 6, 2024 11:45AM

    Lincoln gets two dates in 2026.

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    JimnightJimnight ✭✭✭✭✭

    They are addicting.

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    Once sentence? How about one word - Zincolns.

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    Canada has done the right thing with 1 cent coins.

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    conrad99conrad99 ✭✭✭
    edited March 7, 2024 12:33PM

    I do wish I'd bought zinc stocks back in the early 80s.
    That's one lobby with serious pull.

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    conrad99conrad99 ✭✭✭
    edited March 7, 2024 12:35PM

    I had to edit that post because my Samsung tablet corrected "do wish" to "dogfish." What the heck is a dogfish?

    Edit again. It's a thing. "Squalidae"

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    @conrad99 said:
    I had to edit that post because my Samsung tablet corrected "do wish" to "dogfish." What the heck is a dogfish?

    Edit again. It's a thing. "Squalidae"

    Much better looking than a Zincoln.

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    @BillJones said:
    Some day they will be disconnected and end an annual series that has run from 1793 to date, excluding the 1815.

    Maybe not. Perhaps they will live on as do Kennedy half dollars.

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    SmudgeSmudge ✭✭✭✭✭

    The current ones are worthless.

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    dcarrdcarr ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't need a whole sentence. One word will do:

    Zinc.

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