The Dollar is also known as a Nickel

McDonalds have a new advert out in the UK which promotes its Pound Saver Menu, saying s "the pound, also known as a bob

Bob was slang for the old shilling, now worth five pence.

Equivalent of saying a dollar is also known as a nickel!

Backpedalling, they are claiming that a pound is now known as a bob. Bolleaux.

Peter, Hi...

Depending largely on when one was born, I suspect a dollar is probably worth about a nickel these days. In my own case, I do clearly remember when both a cup of coffee and a draught beer cost $0.05. Sic transit gloria mundi!

Best
Rogov

Peter, Hi...

Depending largely on when one was born, I suspect a dollar is probably worth about a nickel these days. In my own case, I do clearly remember when both a cup of coffee and a draught beer cost $0.05. Sic transit gloria mundi!

Best
Rogov

And then the internal combustion engine was invented, and everything changed.

[David M. Bueker]

Sic transit gloria mundi!

I didn't know Gloria was sick...ba-dum.

Mickey D's of course meant to say 'quid', not 'bob'.

I know Gloria Mundi. Bus and subway rides always make her queasy.

The original prices at McDonald's were 15 cents for a hamburger and 10 cents for the small order of fries. That was circa 1962.

When I was in high school in 1971, I worked as a volunteer at our town's recycling center on Saturdays. The local Friendly's sandwich shop donated vouchers worth $2 for lunch at that shop. That would get you a Big Beef hamburger, french fries, and a Fribble milk shake.

Ah, the wonders of compound inflation. On the other hand, a computer with the power of what's in your cell phone would have cost millions of dollars back then, and would have occupied a small building.

-Paul W.

Travelling sickness , it says she was sic in "transit"

Mickey D's of course meant to say 'quid', not 'bob'.

I know Gloria Mundi. Bus and subway rides always make her queasy..

Is Gloria Mundi by any chance related to Coati Mundi?

Mark Lipton

Mickey D's of course meant to say 'quid', not 'bob'.

I know Gloria Mundi. Bus and subway rides always make her queasy..

Is Gloria Mundi by any chance related to Coati Mundi?

Mark Lipton

She does have an Aussie cousin called Barry, though he's a bit of a fishy character.


regards

Ian