ncbill
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Well if you don't want your Grampa - I had a Grandpa and a Grandma is a Grampa a passive version of Grandparents? Or is it just an index of Grandparents, anyway - to go on about how far a nickel went in the day, don't ask him how does he know what the value of a nickel was back then. The question specifically was asked of me about what I meant about fake index in 1926 and that I made up without any quoting the fact the stocks in the S&P500 were selected after the great depression.
"...like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say.
Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones..."
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