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Income: twenty pounds. Expenses: twenty pounds, one shilling. Result: Misery. Income: twenty pounds Expenses: nineteen pounds, nineteen shillings. Result: Happ

Income: twenty pounds. Expenses: twenty pounds, one shilling. Result: Misery. Income: twenty pounds Expenses: nineteen pounds, nineteen shillings. Result: Happiness. If he can find a way to live on ramen, he may be happy.

rjh29 15y ago
And we're using shillings because...?
- jdale27 15y ago
  It's a quote from Dickens.
  - liedra 15y ago
    Well, apart from the ramen bit. :)
StavrosK 15y ago
Surely, ninety-nine shillings?
- phpnode 15y ago
  Nope, shillings were pre decimalisation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shilling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shilling
  - StavrosK 15y ago
    That was informative, thank you.