Circuit that produces a tingling sensation in the fingers.

[Rich Grise]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Rich The Philosophizer
g>) about 'Circuit that produces a tingling sensation in the fingers.', on
Wed, 15 Dec 2004:

I was careful to say that only one example is KNOWN. I believe there are
alleged to be up to five more out there somewhere. They were not issued in
Britain, but in the then British islands in the Caribbean.

Back in the 1970's I had heard that the "Joseph W. Barr" $1.00 bill was
worth something on the collector market because it was so rare. I was in
Okinawa at the time, in the USAF, where they spent dollars, since it was
an "American Protectorate" or something. It turns out that that's were all
of the Barr dollars went. I collected about two hundred of them to take
home and cash in, but apparently so did every other GI that came home from
Oki that year. )-;

Cheers!
Rich

 

[krw]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 15:53:06 +0000, John Woodgate wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that Paul Burke <[email protected]>
wrote (in <[email protected]>) about 'Circuit that
produces a tingling sensation in the fingers.', on Wed, 15 Dec 2004:
Roger Johansson wrote:
You have to realize that John Woodgate is so old that when he
learned the
multiplication table it was still very new, and still contained some
faulty results. The multiplication tables have been debugged since
then.

John, like myself, was taught the tables in an age when you had to be
prepared to change base several times within a single problem. 12d =
1s, 20s = £1, 21s = 1 guinea. A £133/6/8d note would not have been
surprising back then.

We also had to convert from £133/6/8 to £133.33 *mentally* and
£24.737 to £24/14/8 and three farthings as well. Mental calculation
in base 960.

I've heard that in England, they spend a semester learning to make
change, but weights and measures are done in a day (metric). In the US,
it's the other way around.

It took me a while to get used to their FSF[*] system.

Well, before they decimalized the pound.

Ten ounces to the pound?

Oh, you Brits and your British Humour! Of course, if I'd said, "Pound
Sterling," neither of you would have had this opportunity. I hope you
appreciate it! ;-)

Brits? Me? Ok, I do currently live in New England, but...

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Keith Williams <[email protected]>
wrote (in <[email protected]>) about
'Circuit that produces a tingling sensation in the fingers.', on Wed, 15
Dec 2004:

Ten ounces to the pound?

Yes. Very cheap, snow leopards are. And very light.

 

[Paul Burke]

Yes. Very cheap, snow leopards are. And very light.

The ounce (Acceptable in a former cat), along with the eland (England
lost no good deer), the lynx (Girl with sexy beast), the ocelot (Weird
alien cool cat) and a few others, is a member of the Crossword
Menagerie, beasts only ever seen in cryptic crosswords, and a sign of
desperation on the part of the setter.

Paul Burke

 

[Paul Burke]

I don't know whether the kids are taught hexadecimal or '16 ounces = 1
pound'.

When it's not 14. Remember the table on the back of school exercise
books that began "2 glasses - one noggin"? Fortunately nobody ever asked
me to convert the Yorkshire Woollen Ell to centimetres.

Paul Burke

 

[Paul Burke]

FSF[*] system.
[*] - Furlong Stone Fortnight

Good one! Why are mountains (well eminences anyway) always measured in
feet in the UK, but yards in the USA? And why were horses' prices always
quoted in guineas? Why haven't men cottoned on to millimetres as a more
impressive unit of penile shortness?

Paul Burke

 

[Roger Johansson]

Why haven't men cottoned on to millimetres as a more
impressive unit

And why isn't Mega-meter (Mm) used more?
It is a very useful unit in the modern world where we travel long
distances.

USA is 5Mm from coast to coast, Paris-Beijing is 10Mm, my country is 1.6
Mm from north to south, the equator is exactly 40Mm long, etc..

 

[John Woodgate]

The ounce (Acceptable in a former cat)

Very few people these days would recognise 'U' as meaning 'acceptable'.

OTOH, no-one has yet mentioned the cause of pricking of thumbs.

 

[John Woodgate]

Good one! Why are mountains (well eminences anyway) always measured in
feet in the UK, but yards in the USA?

Are they? My one US-made map doesn't agree with you. The furlong, of
course, is a unit of length very close to 200 metres.

And why were horses' prices always
quoted in guineas?

Because the guinea is a much older unit of currency and was always a
gold coin (AFAIK). The heights of horses are measured in hands, of
course, a unit of approximately 100 mm.(;-)

Why haven't men cottoned on to millimetres as a more
impressive unit of penile shortness?

Why not zoctometres?

 

[John Woodgate]

When it's not 14. Remember the table on the back of school exercise
books that began "2 glasses - one noggin"? Fortunately nobody ever asked
me to convert the Yorkshire Woollen Ell to centimetres.

Well, it's 114 cm, give or take a small amount. But there are other
ells: one is almost exactly 99 cm.

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that John Woodgate <[email protected]
raspam.yuk> wrote (in <[email protected]>) about
'Circuit that produces a tingling sensation in the fingers.', on Thu, 16
Dec 2004:

Why not zoctometres?

Because it's a typo for yoctometres.

 

[Paul Burke]

OTOH, no-one has yet mentioned the cause of pricking of thumbs.

By the thumbing of my prick
Something wicked! Coming quick!

Paul Burke

 

[Keith Williams]

FSF[*] system.
[*] - Furlong Stone Fortnight

Good one! Why are mountains (well eminences anyway) always measured in
feet in the UK, but yards in the USA?

I've always seen mountain heights and altitude listed in feet in left
pondia.

And why were horses' prices always quoted in guineas?

In the US they're listed in $, often M$.

Why haven't men cottoned on to millimetres as a more
impressive unit of penile shortness?

Why not "hands" like horses? ;-)

 

[Alan Balmer]

FSF[*] system.
[*] - Furlong Stone Fortnight

Good one! Why are mountains (well eminences anyway) always measured in
feet in the UK, but yards in the USA?

? I've never seen mountains measured in yards in the US. Feet is the
usual, though I have seen feet and meters.

 

[CBFalconer]

Keith Williams wrote:

FSF[*] system.
[*] - Furlong Stone Fortnight

Good one! Why are mountains (well eminences anyway) always measured
in feet in the UK, but yards in the USA?

? I've never seen mountains measured in yards in the US. Feet is the
usual, though I have seen feet and meters.

Here in leftpondia yards are normally used for foot/swimming races
(under about 1 mile/1500 km) and naval gunnery ranges AFAICT.
Mountains and altitudes get feet. For most internatinal purposes,
such as records, meters become supreme, even in the US.

A few obstreporous types measure automobile fuel consumption in
acres, or more conveniently, picoacres. I have a machine that
consumes between 15 and 20 picoacres.

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that CBFalconer <[email protected]>

A few obstreporous types measure automobile fuel consumption in acres,
or more conveniently, picoacres. I have a machine that consumes between
15 and 20 picoacres.

Clever: volume/distance = area.

Reminds me of specific piezoelectric sensitivity;

volts/meter divided by newtons/sq. meter = voltmeters/newton

Can't be right, because voltmeters weren't invented in Newton's time.

 

[Watson A.Name - \Watt Sun, the Dark Remover\]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Nicholas O. Lindan <[email protected]>
wrote (in <[email protected]>) about
'Circuit that produces a tingling sensation in the fingers.', on Tue, 14
Dec 2004:


Quite right. Now I have a special bargain for you. A hundred $6 bills
for $500.

At work, I often go to lunch at this British pub down the street, and
they have a bunch of stuff such as British coins in collages on the
walls. Messes with my head when I try to make sense (or cents) of their
old coin system. ;-)

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun, the
pernews.com>) about 'Circuit that produces a tingling sensation in the
fingers.', on Sat, 18 Dec 2004:

At work, I often go to lunch at this British pub down the street, and
they have a bunch of stuff such as British coins in collages on the
walls. Messes with my head when I try to make sense (or cents) of their
old coin system. ;-)

4 farthings = 2 halfpennies = 1 penny
4 pence = 1 groat
6 pence = 1 sixpence
2 sixpences = 1 shilling
2 shillings = 1 florin
2.5 shillings = 1 half-crown
2 half-crowns = 1 crown
2 crowns = 1 half-sovereign
2 half-sovereigns = 1 sovereign
21 shillings = 1 guinea
50 sovereigns = 1 pony
500 sovereigns = 1 monkey

I don't see the problem.

 

[Grant Edwards]

At work, I often go to lunch at this British pub down the street, and
they have a bunch of stuff such as British coins in collages on the
walls. Messes with my head when I try to make sense (or cents) of their
old coin system. ;-)

Why? It wasn't any more complicated than US coinage. We've got
pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, half-dollars, dollars
(1,5,10,25,50,100). It was just a different series of numbers:
(1/2,1,2,6,12,120,240). I left out a few, I guess there was a 3
and 24. Oh, and I forgot about guineas. OK, it was a bit more
complicated than US coinage...

 

[peterk]

The abbreviation for penny was "d" for reasons lost in the mists of
time. There was the circular threepenny bit (3d), which when changed
from silver to something cheaper became octagonal. And you missed off
all the low value slang names, tanner (6d), bob (1s), quid (£1).
Peter