No - that was slang for a shilling.
I’m not British, but my understanding is that a “bob” was a shilling, which is not part of the modern, decimal currency system.
Oh - ‘Tricks are for kids’ - what’s that all about?
There was a breakfast cereal called TRIX, whose commercials featured a rabbit trying to get the cereal. He would always fail and the kids would say, “Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids!”
Ahh, that makes sense now. Quick too!
More: Trix cereal.
Trix is a brand of sugary cereal which uses a cartoon rabbit in its advertising.
Slow on the draw today, E.
There’s still room to add that there is no particular reason for rabbits to not have Trix. There’s nothing in it that would harm a rabbit. The only reason Trix are “for kids” is because the little bastards don’t feel like sharing.
Soylent green is people?
It has to do with the movie Soylent Green, but I don’t want to ruin it for you.
There is quite a bit of debate about the Civil War ongoing in the US, and this has been true for a long time. School textbooks were limited by state school policies on what they could say about the Civil War until probably the 1970s.
There’s a great deal of interest in the Civil War- Gettysburg is a fairly popular tourist destination, especially considering that there’s really nothing to see there except the Civil War battlefield. If you go into a chain bookstore, the US history section will have lots of books about various aspects of the Civil War.
Complicating all this is the fact that opponents of the civil rights movement used the Confederate flag (technically the Confederate Navy Jack, but if you say “Confederate flag” to most Americans, this is what they will visualize) as a symbol for their opposition to racial desegregation (or, as they would have it, their opposition to racial desegregation being forced on states by the federal government). The Confederate flag is thus associated with racism by some people, for reasons that don’t really have much to do with the Civil War itself.
That actually sounds like a pretty interesting film. Thanks Smooth Jack.
It’s actually a very corny film, which is why the anguished overacting of Charlton Heston is so memorable.
You’re ruining it, you know. Besides, I kinda like the idea of apartments coming with “furniture.”
I have. He ends up MUCH more affluent than he starts. “Rich” is subjective in this case, as it is in most real-life cases.
Actually, I read that again and see that I’ve misspoken. I read “Ragged Dick” and have some knowledge about the others, although I haven’t read the rest.
Waaaaait. 401k plans are pretty much scams? Got anything else that says that? I’ve never heard of that before.
Not that they’re scams, but that they are cheaper for employers and riskier for employees. Employers have used them instead of a fixed-benefit pension for the sole reason of limiting their financial responsibility to the employee to the amount of the employer’s contribution (if any). That’s not a scam; it’s just less generous than it could be.
As Siam Sam and other have mentioned, I think the glitter of the Alamo has been quietly fading over the past several years for most Americans.