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Posted by Matt (93SE) on September 13, 2002 at 13:31:44:
In Reply to: You think feet and inches are bad? You should try LSD! posted by Uncle Pete on September 13, 2002 at 12:49:20:
: 12 pence to a shilling and twenty shillings to a pound. A fifty pence item wasn't fifty pence, it was 'four and two'. The thing that really scares me is that people got confused going FROM lsd TO metric!!! Bonkers!
: ...and by LSD, I refer of course to librae, solidi, denarii - or pounds, shillings and pence: the pre-1971 British monetary system.