From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 10:25:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfqsinUgNzZA-BpB-fpzsxH=rE8QH9O+TuwJz87Zjniaaw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201106170740.GS26296@mcvoy.com>
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On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 10:08 AM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 12:05:38PM -0500, Paul Winalski wrote:
> > On 11/6/20, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Was the US $ bill really that big in those days?
> >
> > Yes, it was. IIRC, the modern, smaller bills first went into
> > circulation in the 1930s.
> >
> > There's an episode of the Beverly Hillbillies based on the old dollar
> > bill size. Jed Clampett's uncle didn't trust banks and in the 1920s
> > had been burying mason jars full of dollar bills in his backyard.
> > Most were the old-style, punch card-size bills. He tells Drysdale the
> > banker that his uncle has "big money". Drysdale of course thinks that
> > if Jed Clampett the millionaire thinks it's big money, that uncle must
> > be very rich, indeed....
>
> That's hilarious, I missed that joke when watching as a kid.
>
Wow! Me too! Google confirmed the size changed in th 20s as a cost cutting
measure.
Warner
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-05 22:10 Tyler Adams
2020-11-06 0:39 ` Kevin Bowling
2020-11-06 1:41 ` Larry McVoy
2020-11-06 5:04 ` John Cowan
2020-11-06 5:16 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-11-06 6:34 ` Rob Pike
2020-11-06 13:20 ` Will Senn
2020-11-06 15:07 ` Clem Cole
2020-11-06 15:40 ` Will Senn
2020-11-06 15:46 ` Chris Torek
2020-11-06 22:54 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-11-06 23:29 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-11-06 22:31 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-11-06 23:41 ` Warren Toomey
2020-11-06 6:37 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-11-06 15:06 ` Larry McVoy
2020-11-06 15:18 ` Bakul Shah
2020-11-06 15:19 ` Chris Torek
2020-11-06 16:46 ` Stephen Clark
2020-11-06 18:51 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-11-06 22:09 ` John Cowan
2020-11-06 22:44 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-11-06 22:12 ` Andy Kosela
2020-11-06 22:23 ` Larry McVoy
2020-11-07 0:16 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-11-08 23:23 ` George Michaelson
2020-11-06 17:05 ` Paul Winalski
2020-11-06 17:07 ` Larry McVoy
2020-11-06 17:25 ` Warner Losh [this message]
2020-11-06 17:13 ` Adam Thornton
2020-11-06 17:26 ` Stephen Clark
2020-11-06 18:24 ` John Cowan
2020-11-06 21:10 ` Dave Horsfall
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