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12 posted on 07/15/2016 1:36:50 PM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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To: NorthMountain

I think it would be closer to truppence, 1/4 of a shilling.


21 posted on 07/15/2016 1:39:49 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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Yep... TrumpPence... tuppence. My first thought. Feed the birds.


23 posted on 07/15/2016 1:40:07 PM PDT by DigitalVideoDude (It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't care who gets the credit. -Ronald Reagan)
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And it was pronounced a “two pee” piece. When I was visiting Scotland some time back, the public restrooms at train stations, airports, etc. charged 2p to use the restrooms...or 2p to pee. Brits have a great sense of humor and we thot’ it was funny at the time, and probably meant..


69 posted on 07/15/2016 2:04:21 PM PDT by kiltie65
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My first reaction when Pence was floated a few days ago was that Trump-Pence sounds like some old English coin. “I gave him a shilling and he gave me a trumpence and two farthings in change.”


108 posted on 07/15/2016 3:33:28 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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