Fri-15-05-2015, 10:20 AM
(Fri-15-05-2015, 10:04 AM)Admiral Wrote:(Thu-14-05-2015, 14:48 PM)Fred Wrote: Oh and what's a sixpence anyway.
Blimey Fred. An old bloke like you should remember the sixpence.
A small silver coin that disappeared several years after the UK went decimal. Or just plain and simply down-graded the currency because Harold Wilson had bankrupted the country.
Anyway, you could get an awful lot of blackjacks at the sweetie shop for a tanner, as we older folk used to call it.
After the decimal revolution it morphed into two-and-a half new pence, and the number of blackjacks available for the money declined along with nearly everything else.
Brian May plays his guitar with a sixpenny piece instead of a plectrum.
Oh....and there's a song about the sixpence which I can't remember. That was useful wasn't it?
Oh I knew what one was, I just asked so I would get one of your wonderful replies as they keep me entertained.