Mudcat Café message #489731

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Thread #35742 Message #489731
Posted By: Mrrzy
22-Jun-01 - 11:17 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Decimalisation (Tom Lehrer)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tom Lehrer - Decimalisation

If anybody digs this up, I'd like to hear about it.
Meanwhile (TCA), what was the old system, I never did get it well explained, how you could pay 4 pounds for something and get 7-and-sixpence back in change... and which was a bob and which was a quid? What about shillings and half-crowns? Sorry, creep off.