Sunday Times article about "the penny"

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 22, 2009 12:32AM

  Someone should tell the 'reporter' (yes, I know, most are dumb as rocks), to read the reverse of the coin where it says CENT. Cheers, RickO

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• Klif50 Posts: 696 ✭✭✭✭

  November 22, 2009 1:30AM

  In all my years of dealing and collecting I have never been offended by someone calling the cent a penny. It's a common thing and really does no harm. I see the same discussion in the guns forum when some one mixes "clip" and "magazine" and the people who jump on that discussion but the bottom line is that "it all depends on what your definition of is is".
  Another one is people carping when someone types all in caps. That goes back to the old days of teletypes and the early days of computers. This is no crime committed and no real etiquette breached when someone types that well. For some it makes it harder to read, for others it makes it a little easier.
  Spend more time thinking and fretting over the big things and let the little things slide. There is really no harm done.
  Cliff
  

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• 19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭

  November 22, 2009 1:30AM

  Penny is an acceptable term Ricko. It doesn't have to be right or wrong, just understandable and commonly accepted.
  
  Hopefully, enough people will read and understand what the reporter is talking about to write their congressman encouraging them to do away with this dinosaur and actually start saving some government funds.

  I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.
  
  
  
  The name is LEE!

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• 19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭

  November 22, 2009 1:31AM

  
  
  << <i>In all my years of dealing and collecting I have never been offended by someone calling the cent a penny. It's a common thing and really does no harm. I see the same discussion in the guns forum when some one mixes "clip" and "magazine" and the people who jump on that discussion but the bottom line is that "it all depends on what your definition of is is".
  Another one is people carping when someone types all in caps. That goes back to the old days of teletypes and the early days of computers. This is no crime committed and no real etiquette breached when someone types that well. For some it makes it harder to read, for others it makes it a little easier.
  Spend more time thinking and fretting over the big things and let the little things slide. There is really no harm done.
  Cliff >>
  
  
  
  How about "Lock and Load"? Isn't it supposed to be "Load and Lock"?

  I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.
  
  
  
  The name is LEE!

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