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That is truly fascinating. Thanks for coming up with that.
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our minister always referred to the Father, the Son and the holy Spigot
Daddy-O, Junior, and Spook
And on the more general subject of triads:
the three Furies: Tisiphone (avenger of murder), Megaera (the jealous one), and Alecto (unceasing in anger).
the three judges of the Underworld: Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Aeacus.
the three witches of Macbeth
the Olympic motto: Citius, altius, fortius ("faster, higher, stronger")
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I ain't touchin' that with an eleven foot pole (ours go to eleven).
Designed by Spinal Tap, were they?
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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CapK - Of course!
Four Score - How much?
Pieces of Eight - Where does this come from?
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> And on the more general subject of triads:
An extract from a poem I wrote to my wife, years ago, on our first Valentine's Day as parents:
Our wedding: one and one makes one;
Our baby: one and one makes three.
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fourscore = 80 Gettysburg address
This problem was critical as it adversely affected local commerce and forced
the colonists to turn to foreign coins, primarily Spanish American silver produced
in Mexico and Peru. The most widely used coin in the colonies was the eight reales
(piece of eight), primarily clipped underweight examples that had made their way
north from Mexico through the Bahamas. The eight reales
was the highes unit of Spanish silver in the New World, similar in size and weight
to the thalers of the various German states, the French écu, the Portuguese
cruzado and the ducatoon of Holland; colonists called the eight reales coin
a "dollar," from the Dutch"daalder" (a derivative of the German thaler).
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and the eight reales was sometimes clipped at Dr. Bill points out..it was also quartered, and today, some US's will still call a a quarter "two bits". left over slang, put to new purpose.
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Cool, Helen and Bill!
Reales and bits. I'll bet that shave and a haircut--two bits jingle has troubled many a mind for its deep hidden meaning, huh?
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