A grocery store sells products that are priced in a certain way. A daffodil is worth 8 cents, a carrot worth 6 cents, a peach worth 5 cents, a zuccini worth 7 cents, and an orange worth 6 cents. What is a plum worth?
Answer in my profile. No cheating.
-- Edited by Ruhig on Wednesday 18th of July 2012 09:26:20 PM
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Here's my excuse, ... ... well, besides being late ... ... My Dad is deaf in one ear and has lost 90% hearing in his other ear(at an early age) ... He doesn't hear things clearly and often 'mispronounces' words ... I grew up with this phenomenon, and often made an ass out of myself when using words I learned from him that have completely different meanings than the way my Dad used them ...
He'd get a tool or utensil or something that would break on first usage ... and he'd yell out 'dag-gum-it', this thing ain't worth a plum nickel ... heard that all my youthful life ... I repeated it hundreds of times ... Well, the fact is ... the term should have been this ain't worth a 'plug' nickel ... (I forgot) ... A plug nickel was something that was used in the fifties to trick a nickel candy machine into giving you candy for a plug nickel ... which wasn't worth anything ... (it's also called a 'slug') ... ... ... The machine was the kind where you put a nickel into a slot, then twist the handle around to dispense the candy ... you know, like a 'gumball' machine ... only in the 1950's, you had 'jelly-beans', gumballs, peanuts, trinkets, etc. that came out of these machines ...
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4 cents. It took me a couple minutes to figure it out.....assuming I'm correct. I don't want to have to put this on my 10th step inventory tonight, so I swear I didn't cheat.
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Rob
"There ain't no Coupe DeVille hiding in the bottom of a Cracker Jack Box."
4 cents. It took me a couple minutes to figure it out.....assuming I'm correct. I don't want to have to put this on my 10th step inventory tonight, so I swear I didn't cheat.
That was dishonest, I know I'm correct
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Rob
"There ain't no Coupe DeVille hiding in the bottom of a Cracker Jack Box."
