Two Bits?

[JOERM]

Stopped by the store today and grabbed 4 limes along with some other stuff. Went to the counter and the gal asked me how much the limes were, I said I'd go check. I came back and told her "two bits". She said what? I repeated, "two bits". She just gave me a lost stare so I quickly said twenty-five cents. I wanted to ask her is she knew what a zirk fitting was. She wasn't to young to know what two bits was, I'd say mid to late 40's.

 

[ralph7]

bet she knows what a dime bag is.

 

[Rule3]

On the flip side of the coin, who in the world still uses the phrase? Perhaps there is lots of new terminology and verbage you do not know.

 

[NE450No2]

ralph7, you are probably right.

Here is a true story. I got a call one time of Burglary of a Motor Vehicle.
The victim was black.
I was a rookie.
When I got to the point where I asked, what kind of car was it, he replied a "duce and a quarter"... I said "what kind of car?" he again replied a "duce and a quarter"...

So I then asked, where is the car? He replied right out this window...
So I looked...

Well, it WAS a "DUCE AND A QUARTER"...

It was a Buick Electra "225"...

 

[P&R Fan]

Missus P&R Fan, who is 51, once needed some money (Gee, there's a surprise) so I said OK, how about a Sawbuck?
She had no idea what that was.
I know, and I'm only 46!
Jim

 

[OK Hog Shooter]

I'll see your two bits and bump ya to a sawbuck just to gander your duce and a quarter.

Hog

 

[bloo]

A lot of kids can't read a watch with hands in place of digital read out and you expect them to know this ? The clinic I go to got new chairs in the lab. Large wide and high that you sit in to have blood drawn. When I got to work I made the comment that I felt like Edith Ann. Every one had a blank stare. Not a clue what I was talking about. Then I felt real old. Good thing I retired in November. Darn place is full of kids !

Ted

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

"Duce and a quarter" ? Duce ? That was Mussolini.
Now a "Deuce and a Half"...-do they still use those?
Years ago I was in a mess hall at Fort Benning, an E-6 with the 4th Infantry Division patch on his left sleeve was trying to get the cooks to cook a "Denver" omelette, they had no idea until I told them he meant a "Western".
A Greek owned restaurant opened in my town, I asked the owners if they were from New England, they asked why, I pointed out they had "grinders" on their marquee. That's New Englandese for "submarine".
A "hero" to you New Yorkers, and a "hoagie" to you Philadelphians.

 

[feralmerril]

NE450NO2, That story brought to mind a similar one I heard. A old friend was a cop many years ago in indianapolis. They got a call from a black woman who said she got in a fight with her boyfriend and he went out and laid on the street to die. She said "dat fool went and laid down and a roaad mastuh come long and it picked him up and ah didnt see him no mo!"
Later they found him scuffed up and some of his hair was rubbed off etc. He had grabbed the frame of the buick somehow and hung on and lived!

 

[Kelly Green]

I'll see your two bits and bump ya to a sawbuck just to gander your duce and a quarter.

Hog

I'll see that and raise you a twankie and a fin.

 

[Cyrano]

I think that's a 'zerk' fitting.

I'm 78, who's Edith Ann?

 

[JOERM]

Knock knock knock knock knock knock,,,,,two bits and a hair cut......? forgot the last part.

 

[-db-]

I think it's shave and a haircut, two bits.

 

[BaldEagle1313]

I think it's shave and a haircut, two bits.

You are correct, sir!

 

[Dadsnugun]

"two bits and a haircut"?!?

Why I oughter give you the 23 skiddoo!

 

[Double-O-Dave]

ralph7, you are probably right.

Here is a true story. I got a call one time of Burglary of a Motor Vehicle.
The victim was black.
I was a rookie.
When I got to the point where I asked, what kind of car was it, he replied a "duce and a quarter"... I said "what kind of car?" he again replied a "duce and a quarter"...

So I then asked, where is the car? He replied right out this window...
So I looked...

Well, it WAS a "DUCE AND A QUARTER"...

It was a Buick Electra "225"...

When I was still an EMT I had a patient that told me he wrecked his "Faw-faw-two". It took me a while to figure out he wrecked an Oldsmobile 442. (Sigh) I'm sorry, but it did sound better the way the patient described it.

Regards,

Dave

 

[pawncop]

Answered a theft call one evening and my victim was all sorts of upset cause "My best friend done stole my forty."

At first I thought it might be a handgun, turned out to be his bottle of malt liquor.

We cleared with no report.

 

[tops]

And a "case quarter" Larry

 

[JOERM]

You are correct, sir!

I know, just testing ya all!

 

[redlevel]

And a "case quarter" Larry

. . . . as opposed to two dimes and a nickel.