Re: CHAT: Handles/netnames (was: I need an artist ::: and articles)
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 20, 1999, 18:56 |
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On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, taliesin the storyteller wrote:
> >> >Just my tupennorth.
> >>
> >> Add my two rU to that.
> >
> >?
>
> I assumed 'tupennorth' was some form of currency, a parallell to
> 'tuppence'. A rU is the least worth coin in the Outlawed Lands, a
> hundred rU equals one kIr, and ten rU will buy you a soda.
Yep. A contraction of "two pence worth". I just didn't know what a rU
was, but now I do, and what it'll buy! And seems to be a decimal system,
as well.
Padraic.
> tal.