# Musings Upon A Penny

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musings-upon-a-penny/63136>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 24, 2001, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musings-upon-a-penny/63136 "2001-04-24T14:09:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musings-upon-a-penny/63136/21 "2001-04-25T20:01:55Z")

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> \*Originally posted by \*\*\*TheNerd \*\*  
> [T]he Upright Citizen’s Brigade’s “Ass-penny” sketch.

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> \*Originally posted by \*\*\*brother rat \*\*  
> My hands smelled like pennies for months.

Ewww!

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**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musings-upon-a-penny/63136/22 "2001-04-25T20:30:45Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Zenster \*  
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> How many pennies fit in a five gallon water bottle? I on my way to filling a second one. \*\*

I’ve got one too that I’ve been throwing nickels and pennies in for about a year and a half and it is barely over the first ridge on the bottom.

Just for fun,I’m using a Crown Royal Bottle for the dimes. It will hold about 75-80 dollars worth of them.

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**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musings-upon-a-penny/63136/23 "2001-04-25T22:04:16Z")

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> \*Originally posted by John Corrado \*  
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> **Arden** : Well, I’m of Italian _descent_. Non conosco che cosa state dicendo; non posso parlare italiano. (Grazie, pesci de Babele.)  
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Me too.

Bwhahaha!

pesci de Babele literally translated is fish of confusion.

😃

[i love Babelfish]

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**Author:** ![shelbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@shelbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shelbo)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musings-upon-a-penny/63136/24 "2001-04-25T22:57:41Z")

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> \*Originally posted by hockeynut \*  
> As long as we have sales tax, there will still be a need for the otherwise worthless penny.

They already round to the nearest penny (the sales tax is 0.0875 here in Los Angeles, so you certainly are not getting an even one cent on most transactions), so why not round to the nickle (or dime).

We should let people round all transactions to the nearest nickle, and send out the word that the penny will not be valid tender after a year or so. A quick boost to the economy will follow, as millions of people clean the pennies out of the sock drawer and use the money to buy bubble gum.

Junk the Penny! (OK, you can save your penny books!)

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